Today is day 6 in Clifden in Connemara.  A beautiful area in the west of Ireland.  We have rented a big house with two other couples, visitors from the USA.  I was here for an overnight tour earlier this summer but Alan didn't come along on that trip so it's a first for him.  Its been a series of really great day trips in a car that we rented in Dublin. It's a much better way than day tours by bus, we have had a lot of freedom to explore.  The first day we went to Leenane, a town I visited earlier and remembered a map of the many nearby Bronze Age antiquities on the visitors' center wall. Our guests were interested in that aspect of the area.  It turned out there was a printed map that I bought.  We have been using it to identify the location of our tour.  Yesterday we went to Innishbofin, one of the Aran Islands, also a new experience for me. Today is the next to last day we return to Dublin on Tuesday.