Thursday, March 29, 2012

Bunratty Castle

Early morning at Bunratty Castle and Folk Park, just outside of Limerick. First ones there - we beat the tour buses!

The castle itself is fully furnished and you can wander around wherever you like. However, since we were the only ones in the castle at the time, the gentleman that was opening everything up let Sam climb the tower steps with him and raise the castle flag. (He said Sam is the only tourist that has ever had that honor.) Then he unlocked an out-of-the-way door and showed them the dungeon, which was really just a big hole off the main receiving room, but still. Cool!

They have a sort of medieval village on the grounds that we wandered for a while, and we came across two Irish wolfhounds. I think that was the favorite event for the kids. The kids are pictured below with the smaller dog.

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