"Traveling
Feet"
Show Notes
for April 14, 2007:
"Barefoot
Beachcomber, David Isby, travels with guest travel expert, Stephanie
Abrams, visiting charming and historic hotels, Inns and an elegant
hotel in Ireland!"
Topics
Include:
Where to stay in the Midlands and West Coast of Ireland
including County Longford, Carlow, Port Laoise, and close to Shannon
Airport.
Hotels
include:
Viewmount House, County Longford - 1700's Manor
House in a country park-like setting, centrally located between
Dublin, New Grange and Boyne Valley and so is an ideal resting
spot for those wishing to explore these popular desitnations!
www.viewmounthouse.com
Coolanowle
House, between Carlow and Port Laoise Ireland is a working
organic farm, that also sports sheep and Meggie their Border collie
is a working dog responsible for the farm's sheephearding. It
has about 10 guest rooms and wonderful public rooms that are all
extremely charming. There are also 3 lovely detached self-contained
stone cottages for guests requiring total privacy for their family.
It is a great place to base yourself for touring and site-seeing
around the region.
www.coolanowle.com
Carrygerry
Country House, in Newmarket-on-Fergus, at Shannon Airport.
This hotel is an member of Private Ireland which is a collection
of family owned and operated country houses in Ireland. 8 minutes
from Shannon Airport, yet far removed from the airport's flight
pattern. Views from your room will include pastoral country settings
including grazing horses and sweeping meadows. The dining room
is housed in a glass conservatory where guests. Chef Niall Ennis
takes special pride in using the finest organic local produce
for all of his meals. It is also a member of the "Best
Loved Hotels of the UK & Ireland". Carrygerry also
draws dinner guests from the town to enjoy the ambiance of quality
of its public rooms and cuisine. Carrygerry is within easy diving
distance of Bunratty Villiage and Folk Park, the Town of Ennis
(frequently named The Tidiest Town in Ireland), and the
town of Limerick and King John's Castle.
www.carrygerryhouse.com
The
Merchant Hotel, Belfast, Northern Ireland. This hotel
is located in downtown Belfast and was originally the Ulster Bank.
It has classical Roman architectural very similar in look to the
exterior of the US Federal Building in NYC's Financial District.
Local attractions include the Titanic Museum and Shipyards, Belfast
Botanical Gardens, Giant's Causeway, Down Cathedrial St. Patrick's
Burial Place and the location of the Saint Patrick Centre, and
Saul where Patrick built the first church in Ireland which continues
to hold Sunday morning services at 10am.
www.themerchanthotel.com
Belfast
Visitors & Convention Bureau.
www.gotobelfast.com
Insights
into what you will find at the Museum of the Titanic.
Guests
Include:
James Kearney, owner of the historic Viewmount House on the Dublin
Road, County Longford.
www.viewmounthouse.com
Bernadine Mulhall, owner of the Coolanowle House.
www.coolanowle.com
Niall Ennis,
owner and chef at the Carrygerry Country House in Newmarket-on-Fergus
at Shannon Airport.
www.carrygerryhouse.com
Fiona Ure,
Belfast Visitors & Convention Bureau, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
www.gotobelfast.com
Petra Devitt,
The Merchant Hotel, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
www.themerchanthotel.com
Listen
to the show in Windows Media Format:
hour1
hour2 |
