Adventures of Trent & Jane

 We spent 4 nights in Prague, did 2 walking tours, and 2 musical shows.  Prague is marvelous from the moment you arrived from the underground, carry a 20 kg suitcase  (a nice Czech helped me up the last set of stairs, which describes Czech people well) and throughputs our stay wandering streets and taking the trams.  We wandered around a found some modern sculptures and groceries our first day my favorite was Kafka bust, I’m quite sure his mind worked similarly.    The architecture was a lot of gothic, baroque, and Soviet eras.    We where lucky to wander onto the Charles bridge early Friday morning as the crowds over the spweekend where emense latter in the day. Our guide Mike was an interesting fellow who retold stories of his dad being in the resistance including being active in the Prague spring uprising in 68. Highlights os course was the castle, the original church was built in the 14 century but the front was completed in the 1920s.  ...

 We have all heard about how wonderful the golf courses are in Ireland and Scotland. At this time I can only comment on Ireland but hope to be able to add Scotland soon. The first premise of this golf trip was to play smaller more local courses that cost €50 or less per person. Since our experience and research shows that rental clubs per round, if the have them and they are usable, tend to be as costly as the round itself. We have rented clubs long term in Portugal and found a service in Ireland that met our needs. We rented our clubs for the entire time in Ireland from a company called Clubstohire. The website is www.clubstohire.com   The clubs were delivered to us at the car rental station at Dublin airport by Billy, amiable young man with good information. The clubs were high quality and suited us well. I should have ordered a club between fairway 3 wood and 5 hybrid but that was my failure not theirs and I managed.  The first course was Roundwood Golf Club in county ...

 While we are winding down our Ireland portion of the trip, dropped the rental car and clubs off, caught the bus to downtown where we decided to do a pub crawl of old pubs.  First stop Stags Head, started in 1780, amazing windows and wood carvings, also Trent said the Guinness was very good!   These onto the Brazen head , 1198, oldest pub in Dublin.   We experienced typical Irish weather, rain on our walk.  After the pub crawl we went to the Celtic nights dinner show where we heard, you guessed it, Celtic music and seen Celtic dancing. Our last morning we did a walking tour with Kieran, the hidden gems and good overview of history and some tall Irish tales!  The Dublin Castle was actually painted like the wall, way back in days of yore. The tower dates back to 1100, the rest were destroyed by fire.  The main building was constructed in the 1800 and would have been painted like the back side to show wealth.  Highlights of the tour included trinity ...

 We have three nights in Naas and we have tickets to the horse races. We haven’t seen the thoroughbreds run in ages, this should be exciting! We have a small apartment out in the country. It’s quiet and pretty homey. They have a pellet stove for heat and to heat the water. Had fun at the horse races with 2 blokes Joe, the better and Roger his friend.  Surprised to see an incline at the finish line.  Trent came out ahead, but the beer and food used up the winnings!    Played our last round of gold at craddytown, gorgeous course, lots of water, best condition.  It was cloudy when we started but the sun peaked out for the back 9.   Yes that is a giant golf ball by the 18 th hole.