{"id":2704,"date":"2014-12-21T12:22:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T12:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/?p=2704"},"modified":"2014-12-21T12:22:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T12:22:54","slug":"some-pictures-from-december-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/?p=2704","title":{"rendered":"Some pictures from December adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Parkes came to town and we had a nice time in the mountains and by the sea. <a href=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1244.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2709\" src=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1244-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1244\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1244-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1244-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1244.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1239.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2710\" src=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1239-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1239\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1239-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1239-2000x1125.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1239-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1217.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2711\" src=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1217-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1217\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1217-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1217-2000x1125.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1217-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1186.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2712\" src=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1186-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1186\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1186-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1186-1125x2000.jpg 1125w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1186-624x1109.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1276.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2708\" src=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1276-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1276\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1276-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1276-1125x2000.jpg 1125w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1276-624x1109.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1294.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2707\" src=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1294-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1294\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1294-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1294-2000x1125.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1294-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1308.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2706\" src=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1308-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1308\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1308-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1308-2000x1125.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1308-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1316.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2705\" src=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1316-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1316\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1316-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1316-1125x2000.jpg 1125w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1316-624x1109.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bret and I finished up our 52 pubs the night before our first wedding anniversary!!\u00a0 We complete the challenge after a bit of a pub crawl at El Fenix.\u00a0 We thought it was hilarious that the logo from one of our top beers, an IPA made locally called Handsome (logo on phone), was strikingly similar to that of our favorite mexican restaurant in Cork, Cafe Mexicana (postcard that I happen to be carrying around in my purse).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1329.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2713\" src=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1329-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1329\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1329-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1329-2000x1125.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_1329-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We took one last road trip up to Connemara and Mayo.\u00a0 In general, we find that our favorite place is the one we just visited and this was no exception.\u00a0 Connemara was really stunning with snow capped mountains and we had lovely views of the Achill Islands from our drive around Mayo.\u00a0 We could definitely spend another few weeks exploring this area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0542.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2721\" src=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0542-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0542\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0542-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0542-2000x1125.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0542-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0543.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2715\" src=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0543-1024x225.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0543\" width=\"1024\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0543-1024x225.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0543-2000x440.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0543-624x137.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0567.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2716\" src=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0567-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0567\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0567-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0567-2000x1125.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0567-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0578.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2717\" src=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0578-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0578\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0578-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0578-2000x1125.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0578-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0580.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2718\" src=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0580-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0580\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0580-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0580-1125x2000.jpg 1125w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0580-624x1109.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0581.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2719\" src=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0581-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0581\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0581-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0581-2000x1125.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0581-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We stopped in Galway for lunch on our way home&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This parking garage was clearly designed to mess with tourists not from Ireland or the UK.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0591.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2714\" src=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0591-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0591\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0591-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0591-2000x1125.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0591-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Parkes came to town and we had a nice time in the mountains and by the sea. Bret and I finished up our 52 pubs the night before our first wedding anniversary!!\u00a0 We complete the challenge after a bit of a pub crawl at El Fenix.\u00a0 We thought it was hilarious that the logo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2723,"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions\/2723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}