The day after St Patrick's Day, after moving all our belongings out of our place in Galway and saying goodbye to our flatmate Brian, Sara and I put most of our stuff in storage up the road and set off on our two-week car trip.

We headed east through Counties Roscommon and Longford until we reached County Meath, where we stopped at Kells. That's where the famous book of Kells originated, although there wasn't much to detain the visitor so we ... (more)