Ireland Vacation - Heading to Waterford

After breakfast we left the Dublin B&B and got our first real experience of roads in the Dublin and in the rest of the country. It wasn't bad at all navigating through the city. We got on the N11 (National Road) to head down the eastern coast of Ireland to Glendalough in the Wicklow Mountains. Glendalough is the site of a monastery founded by St Kevin in the sixth century. The Gaelic spelling, Gleann Dá Locha , means "The valley of the two lakes." It was a very tranquill location. There were remains of a number of small churches and one very well preserved round tower.

We left Glendalough and made our way back to the N11 to continue to drive down to Waterford. Even though the N11 is one of the main rounds in Ireland it was still only 1 lane in each direction for most of the way. Once we reached the south coast area I wanted to try and make it to tour an old lighthouse. Unfortunately we were unable to find it. We drove down many small unmarked roads but couldn't find our way. We were using the Ordnance Survey maps of Ireland. The maps were almost *too* acurate. We finally gave up and made our way to the B&B that we were going to stay in Tramore, a city south of Waterford on the coast. We got settled and then went out to dinner. After dinner we went down to the beach and walked along the sand and rocks picking up shells.

It was a perfect end of the day.