Photo Credit: Katie McQueeney

We just finished up our first three day weekend during the trip and one of the other students and I (the, much better photographer than I, Katie) rented a car and drove up to Killarney, around the Ring of Kerry, and up around Dingle Peninsula this weekend. 

Side Note: The best 30 Euros I’ve spent on this trip was the optional full liability insurance I got on the rental car…the ring of kerry has some very narrow roads and let’s just say I scrapped up the side of the car a bit.

Anyway, people might say that the Ring of Kerry is a “tourist” destination and  I won’t deny that it isn’t.  However, there are usually reasons places become tourist destinations (unless you are Wall Drug in which case it was just a good marketing campaign) and the Ring of Kerry is definitely popular for a reason.  
For several hours we drove around and left and right, all we could see was the gorgeous countryside.  Pictured is Ladies’ View named thusly because of one of Queen Victoria’s ladies-in-waiting who thought it was the prettiest place in all the realm.  

It was absolutely lovely (even if the roads were a bit narrow).