July 3, 2004: Our next stop was at the Minnocks Farmhouse B&B just outside Birr. This is a working farm, and the dog shown was rounding up the dairy cows and bringing them in just after we arrived.
July 3, 2004: Our next stop was at the Minnocks Farmhouse B&B just outside Birr. This is a working farm, and the dog shown was rounding up the dairy cows and bringing them in just after we arrived.
July 3, 2004: This is the Minnocks Farmhouse, where we stayed for our second night.
July 3, 2004: This is Roz in front of The Thatch bar and grill, where we ate dinner.
July 3, 2004: Cows grazing near the Minnocks farmhouse
July 3, 2004: Sunset outside our window at Minnocks Farmhouse.
July 4, 2004: We next went to Birr Castle Demesne. One of the features of the grounds is the Millennium Gardens. This is the view just after you walk in one of the gates to the Millennium Gardens.
July 4, 2004: There are two paths that have archways over them. This is half of one of them.
July 4, 2004: There are two paths that have archways over them. This is half of one of them.
July 4, 2004: The sides of the archways have windows cut in them. This is looking through one of those windows to the archway on the other side of the garden.
July 4, 2004: This is the full length of one of the paths. Roz is walking at the other end.
July 4, 2004: A statue with roses growing up around it.
July 4, 2004: Rosalind walking down a garden path looking at the flowers.
July 4, 2004: More flowers in the Millennium Garden at the Birr Castle Demesne.
July 4, 2004: A door in the wall of the garden.
July 4, 2004: One of the flowers growing in the greenhouse in the Millennium Gardens.
July 4, 2004: One of the flowers growing in the greenhouse in the Millennium Gardens.
July 4, 2004: After walking around in the garden for a while, a cat showed up and started following us. Rosalind is always happy to have something fuzzy to pet.
July 4, 2004: A tree in the garden.
July 4, 2004: The hedge on either side is in the Guinness book of world records as being the tallest box hedge in the world. It is over a hundred years old.