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Travel Experience - 2006
England, Wales, Ireland
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June 21, 2006 - Day 10 - We also were introduced to Irish Football (Soccer) and other group ball games
June 22, 2006 - Day 11 - Off to Blarney, Ireland where we visited the Blarney Castle and . . . kissed the Blarney Stone!  The Blarney Castle was built circa 1446 and has 127 steps to reach the top.
June 22, 2006 - Day 11 - That evening was the Big Dance with the locals where we tried our Irish dancing from the lessons that we received the previous day
June 22, 2006 - Day 11 - That evening was the Big Dance . . . AND of course there was food!
June 23, 2006 - Day 12 - Now we are in County Clare - Lisdoonvarna - a lunar like landscape called the Burren Area.  People have lived here for over 5000 thousand years and have been burying their dead in tombs like this one for 3000 years trusting that there is life after death
June 24, 2006 - Day 13 - First we were deep in a mine - now we visit these caverns in the Burren Area.  The Aillwee cave was discovered in 1940.
June 24, 2006 - Day 13 - We also experienced and instructed nature walk through beautiful pasture land (watch out for the cow manure) and this "slide rock"  -  past time for many several generations ago
June 24, 2006 - Day 13 - The 700 foot Cliffs of Moher reaching down to the Atlantic Ocean