Travelogue Ireland 2007
From Connemara to Burren
We tried to get a ferry or a flight to one of the islands Inishmaan or Inisheer from Rossaville but without success. The summer schedule with more regular flights would have started a few days later.
Gallway supplied us with coffee and cake and Gabi had time to do some shopping.
The Lonely Planet recommended the Rusheen Lodge in Ballyvaughan as “Outstanding”. We liked our room so much that we spent two nights at this hotel, every else we had left after only one night.
This part of Ireland is called “The Burren” and it is beautiful. But there are two things I cannot recommend you: “The Burren Smokehouse” is a tourist trap. Yes, they will sell you good salmon (if you are willing to pay the price), but not even the five-minute-alibi-documentary-video is interesting. I’d also recommend not visiting “The Burren Perfumery”. It is far from every other attraction and their alibi-documentary-video is nothing but a waste of time. The soaps and perfumes they produce are based on plants which exist in the Burren but they are grown in France. Well the surroundings are nice but not worth the trip.
But now for the interesting and / or beautiful aspects of the Burren:
