Lough Eske – a dream of a place to start a honeymoon. Sybaritic & curled up in front of the fire, watching the moon rise over the castle, hours floating in the heated pool under glass walls or steaming in cedar saunas. Tromping the grounds in search of hidden graveyards, mystic woods, toadstools & fairyrings, mossy ruins. The lake, where stones become tiny worlds of their own, trees and grasses in miniature. Foggy cozy cold nights and drizzle days in Donegal.
Meg
1 year ago
Sigh. You’re making me miss our honeymoon. We saw castles in Scotland.
miss alix
1 year ago
so beautiful dreamy and delightful. i want to visit.
Ms. Bunny
1 year ago
It looks so magical. I want to go!
But for reals, it looks like an amazing place to spend a honeymoon. Can’t wait to see more.
verhext
1 year ago
This was the first 2 days, so there’s a lot more! I just wish the economic boom hadn’t caused so many mcmansions and tract housing developments to be built. DRASTIC change since I was there 15 years ago. Still, I wouldn’t turn down that little red trimmed house! (new dream house, right on the edge of the lake!)
jennifer
1 year ago
that’s immensely gorgeous! what a beautiful place to spend your honeymoon
Melissa
1 year ago
This looks so perfect! My family is from Donegal, I’ve always wanted to go. What a beautiful mist drizzled honeymoon!
Jane Flanagan
1 year ago
Lovely shots. So nice to see pics from home here!
verhext
1 year ago
The whole time in Connemara I kept thinking of that pony shot you posted. The ponies were my favorite!!
ElfPuddle
1 year ago
I’m now cleaning drool off of the keyboard.
That is soooooo gorgeous and romantic!
Jacinta
1 year ago
Swooning over these photos! So mysterious, romantic, and gorgeous—and the Mr. looks very dapper with his umbrella at the ready! I’m from Co. Clare and have only been to Donegal once (when I was a kid and oblivious to its moody charm), but you have reminded me and convinced me that I need to take a trip up on my next visit home. Congratulations!
verhext
1 year ago
It seems funny to Americans, I think, that the counties would be SO close and yet even people who live there don’t travel so much within Ireland. I mean, you can drive all over the country faster than you can go from LA to SF!
Glad you liked the photos!
Jacinta
1 year ago
It’s so true! I use my American husband as an excuse to travel around and actually be a tourist in Ireland; otherwise my friends and family would laugh at me for wanting to go to another county without the excuse of a wedding or funeral. The attitude is “sure, it’s all the same!” A holiday requires the crossing of water and changing of climates—an attitude I’ve had trouble shaking myself even here in the States. When we start planning vacations, I always start with South America or Australia and then remind myself that there’s SO much to see in my own backyard here (and in Ireland, too!)
Anyway, welcome back!
Annie
1 year ago
Oh, so pretty. I love the light in the hills. And that man? He is your *husband*!!!
verhext
1 year ago
Ha! I keep saying that to myself.
The wedding was so hectic that we’re planning a relaxed, do nothing summer camp out in July – hope you’ll still be around!
carly
1 year ago
So lovely! A trip to Ireland has been on my list for a while and this looks like a must-see spot. And certainly a perfect honeymoon location! I have to agree with Jacinta, having visitors from abroad is the perfect excuse to explore your country. When I have visitors in the Netherlands I love to take them to anywhere other than the tourist spots of Amsterdam. Admittedly, I always start with another country when planning my holidays, but there are so many reasons to explore what’s around me. Thanks for the reminder* carly
mathyld ▲under the pyramids▲
1 year ago
This is looking absolutely divine, dreamy, peaceful … And I imagine it cold with cozy evenings spent around the fireplace …
And the colours totally match the wedding’s
x x x
-m-
E. Elizabeth
1 year ago
Ireland is such an impossible looking place. When I was there last year, I would occasionally burst out laughing because everything was just *so* much like a soft, green fairytale land. My puny camera was no match for the million shades of green and grey.
giovanna
1 year ago
wow, these are absolutely amazing! i’m dying to go ireland. it looks just as magical as i imagined.
Desaline
1 year ago
Oh, goodness. This looks like what heaven looks like in my head.
anna and the ring
1 year ago
Ooo, I want to be in a castle right now, in front of a roaring fire sipping cocktails.
lizzie [ten thou bride]
1 year ago
This is completely beautiful…I’m dying to go!
The Thirty-Something Bride
1 year ago
Am I allowed to be bitter and rude and just say eff you and your kick-ass honeymoon?
JK.
Nothing can top our hidey-hole mountain top Zihuatanejo luurve fest.
Looks effin lovely, yo.
verhext
1 year ago
ha! it was pretty, but i would have preferred tropical! (he is freckly and hates the sun.)