This morning, we left our excellent B&B at Lough Gur and headed toward our next destination, Galway. We timed our departure so we could attend a worship service at the Ennis Evangelical Church in Ennis, Ireland north of Shannon Airport. We enjoyed rhe service. They sang a lot of songs intermixed with Bible passages.
After church, we ate at a Hillbilly Chicken Restaurant in Ennis before heading for a region known as the Burren. The Burren is a large area in County Clare with limestone outcroppings that cover the landscape. It's been inhabited for thousands of years. There are many tombs, stone forts, and rock walls that were built centuries or even millenia ago. We stopped at an interesting place called the Burren Perfumery where they make their own herbal perfumes, soaps, lotions, and body care products. The Burren is unique in all the flowers and flora it supports. 70% of all the types of flora in Ireland grow here. After our stop at the perfumery, we went and visited a tomb that consists of a large rock slab balanced on four stones. The slab weighs about two tons. It is hard to imagine how people managed to place it on the four stones 5000 years ago. Obviously, they found a way.
We finished the drive into Galway, arriving at our B&B at about 5:30. We used latitude and longitude coordinates keyed into our GPS to find our B&B. It worked like a champ, bringing us right to the front doorstep.
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