Spiders of Killarney

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Reviewing I realize we went to Killarney first and Dingle second, but that isn’t how I remember it. So, it’s not how I wrote it up.
But, either way, we were eventually in Killarney on the Ring of Kerry.


We went to do our laundry there. But, instead of finding a laundromat, we found a place that would do it totally for us while we explored.


We explored the local castle where part of the tour was to tell us all how we would have been killed entering the castle.
Interesting. But, I thought it impolite to charge you to enter and then tell you you’d have been killed at the door.

We stayed at a B&B just outside of town in an attic room.

The next morning when I stepped out of the shower, I saw a spider as big as my hand on the toilet.
I’m not normally afraid of spiders, but this one was huge and between me and my towel.
So, I used some toilet paper to knock it in and flush. As the water started swirling around, it started climbing back out against the current.
I threw more paper on it and it lost its grip and got washed away.

When I came out of the bathroom and told my wife about the size of the spider, she didn’t believe me.
She told me “everything looks bigger when you’re naked.” (I’m not saying it isn’t true. Just the spider really was big.)
When she went to close our suitcase another spider, equally large jumped out from behind it. As we dealt with it, she had to agree that the spiders of Killarney were very large.

Part of the trip deal we got included at 1 day bus tour of the Ring of Kerry. So, on day two there, we got on the bus.


The first stop was going to be the town my mother’s mother’s family came from. But, we drove through town and stopped at a tourist “farm” where they charged people to look at the animals.
As we drove on, we saw a lot of other places we would have stopped, but the bus didn’t.


For lunch we stopped outside of a town were we could “eat where we wanted”, but the only place you could reach in the time allotted was one place where the tour people seemed very well known.

We did stop at one town in the center of town. It seemed that everyone there was either selling alcohol or post cards.
We mostly walked around.


It was a very scenic town.


But, the whole area was like staying in a giant Irish theme park.
Between that and the giant spiders, not my favorite place in Ireland, even if it is where my family was from.