What's the best way to spend a rainy Friday in Ireland I hear you ask. Well for me today it is doing the Connoisseur tour @ Kilbeggan Distillery.
What a great tour, one of the best I have done so far.
First sample was the single grain.
then the small batch rye
next was the Tyrconnell 16 year old
last taste for the tour was the Connemara. This is Irelands only peaty/smoky whiskey. I actually have a bottle of this at home.
After the tour we could have another drink in the bar I had the Tyrconnell 10 year old.
And what better way to end a rainy day whiskey tour than with an Irish Coffee.
As part of the tour we also received a take home 200ml of Kilbeggan whiskey that we bottle ourselves, this is currently the only whiskey available that was distilled in Kilbeggan.
So this morning I was eating a curly wurly (I haven't had one for a long time & it will be a long time till the next one) as I was chewing there was something crunchy, I thought that's weird maybe it's some hard caramel. I extracted a bit of the crunchy stuff to discover it was white, not caramel, damn it, it's a bit of my tooth. That's all I need. It seems ok at the moment. I'll see how it goes, I might have to try and get into see a dentist when in Tullamore.
Anyhow, I was saying yesterday to Luke the kayak guide, that because I'm leaving tomorrow (which is today) the sun will be shining. Sure enough the sun was out when I left Westport this morning.
First stop was Irish Photo Rally Point # 20 Staunton's Forge.
As I was leaving a lady said to me are you the Australian lady? I said yes. She said I was told you would be coming by. 🤷 My reputation obviously proceeds me. 😁
My first stop was at the bottom of Croagh Patrick. I definitely was not going to try and make it to the top.
It's hard to comprehend that so much pain and suffering happened in such a beautiful place. There is a memorial here to those that suffered & died here during the famine.
I stopped at the other end of the lake to get my drone out and of course just as I was unpacking it started to rain.
Started raining fairly heavy just after I took the welcome to Galway photo.
More amazing scenery in Connemara so I took another video.
