IRELAND

Eric and Mandy's Honeymoon

   During our visit to Ireland, our favorite and most memorable stop was the three days, two nights we spent in Castle Leslie.  This is a real castle, built in 1663, which holds many of the Leslie family's personal items, which are displayed throughout the castle in every room.  It was an amazing place to visit and we hope to go back someday.  We also highly recommend it to anyone who visits Ireland.

                        This is a side of Castle Leslie from the garden view.  We stayed the room on the very top right during our second night.

(By the way, this photograph, taken by Mandy, was chosen to be published in a coffee table picture book.)

This is the Leslie family crest that you                 This is part of the grounds... with a purple tree!          This is the "throne"... yes, it is a toilet.

see when you arrive in the entryway.                                                                                                     Their family had a great sense of humor!

The Mauve Room

             This is the room we stayed in our first night in Castle Leslie.  It was very large, and as you can see, full of old artifacts as well.

This was the view from the Mauve Room.  It overlooks Lake Glaslough which means "Glass Lake".

This is the weird toilet... one of the first in Ireland!

Shane's Room

                This is the room we stayed in the second night.  It was much smaller, but had plenty of interesting things to look at as well.

Other Castle Leslie Pictures

                                   The Grand Staircase                                                   The Dining Room

                                    Eric in the garden                                            Garden view from Shane's Room

                                      View from the Lake                                             Eric by Lake Glaslough

On the second night, we had a special                           This is the first view you see upon

                    dinner show... American showtunes! go figure...                            arrival to Castle Leslie.

               we were joined by several guests who were from

              the area.  It was fun to mingle with the Irish people.

Other Ireland Sights

                      This fort/castle was built in 1100 A.D.                                    This is one of the many church steeples in Dublin.

             This is by far the oldest building we've ever seen!

These are pictures in another hotel we stayed in... not quite so isolated or primitive as the castle was...

you knew we had to show the bade!