To the country!

Sunday we headed south of Dublin to explore the countryside. Unfortunately it was a fairly wet day and we had to take refuge in the car for part of it. We started out in a small village just in the mountains called Enniskerry and headed through the mountains to Glendalough "the valley of the two lakes". There is a 6th century monastic site there with picturesque ruins you can wander around and look through and lots of stone crosses. We also hiked up to a waterfall that is between the two lakes and had some lunch at a kiosk there. After that we headed up and up a VERY steep narrow road to follow the scenic Military Road. It is said to be some of the emptiest and most rugged landscapes in the county. I read that they filmed some of the battle scenes from the movie Braveheart there because of the great expanses of nothing. That is the part of the trip Colin said he enjoyed the most...he calls it "the nothing". It truly was a unique kind of landscape, no trees, very few buildings, just rocks and blanket bog. We saw a few waterfalls and a group of sheep but mostly fog and bog. Unfortunately the fog and rain made it impossible to get a picture that does it justice.