Well here we are held up in Newcastlewest County Limerick after another fun filled day scouring the Irish countryside. We were going to pull up stumps tonight in Killarney until I spied an Georgian auction being held in this fair town tomorrow....We have viewed the auction list...thinking there might be a container heading Brisvegas way after dis auction :0) Georgian period was 1700's people's.....I'm feeling a shopping spree coming on! Anyways our day started out with a very fine brekkie at O'Connors pub...Moth pigged on a full Irish one whilst I was most restrained having the best ever porridge I have ever eaten, still salivating over it Inspite of just had a very nice salad! After brekkie & paying our host....geez only 147 Euro for our nights B & B staying including dinner last night & a shitload of booze....bloody cheap Ollie! Moth's dinner included half a cow....dunno how they did it for the price. Anyway we bid farewell to our humble host & headed down Slae Head drive as recommended by our host....well buggar me what a gem of a find, the countryside was very much a step back in time. We stopped by a famine village fully restored, great famine or potato blight hit Ireland & particularly here in west Ireland with dire straits between the years 1844 to 1849. This period produced mass famine due to an airborne disease they say came across the Atlantic from the USA & hit the potato crops wiping out the entire industry & causing death by disease or emigration. A very harsh period in the country's history. 2.1 million people either emigrated to USA or Australia or died in those famine years, current Irish population is 4 million....says it all eh! Anyway, I digress....we went thru this village lost in our own thoughts as to the hardships endured by these peoples, such tragedy. Further along this road of discovery we found Penny's coffee shop which was also a pottery gallery, amazing glazed pottery wall puzzles were on offer depicting the fable tales of the Irish culture including the Great Salmon, a story from Galway depicting a talking salmon saving a small boy from evil. Of notable mention was Penny's meditation garden, very tranquil...full of wild flowers & herbs, easy to stay a while & enjoy. Onward we went to the Slae Cliffs, a natural wonder of rock formations jutting out over hundreds of feet of shear drop, Moth says about 300 feet! We stumbled upon a unique prehistoric museum which had a wonderful array of fossilised prehistoric local artefacts that ranged from a mammoth skull, stone warfare items, bones & other unmentionables. They also had Levi's 501 jeans turned into wallets & notebooks, never seen this before, very retro & of course purchased some...along with a 1927 licence plate from New Jersey...of Uncle Sam's variety. Found a few antique shops too that were worthy of our attention...Moth bought a copper & silver tankard hallmarked Georgian era...he was happy! We headed back to Dingle for a wander around town & a late lunch. Did a bit of shopping & pulled up for lunch at Murphy's....great potato & broccoli soup! Called into the abbey & was blown away by the stained glass windows, stunningly beautiful. Moth found the local ice cream palour of course...he was sighted exiting with an obscene size ice cream that he says it consisted of a scoup of each of rum & raisin, Irish cream & Irish toffee. I called it a heart attack in a cone....I passed thankfully! After he recovered from such indulgence we hit the road to Killarney stopping a several antique abodes enroute....such temptation! Not far out of Killarney & I discover this auction on in Newcastle west so we did a bit of a random detour & here we are pulled up stumps for the evening with great anticipation of tomorrows treasure finds...right now I'm dead so I'm pulling up here for the day. Hoo Roo from 2 tired puppies