Michele in the Detroit Free Press

yesiree · Guru

Michele in the Detroit Free Press

Michele Erdvig · Host

Corey,

Thanks! Great photo. I saw the article online: http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080824/FEATURES07/808240324/1032/features07 I got a Google Alert about it a week or two ago. But I would enjoy having a hard copy.

I emailed the author Ellen Creager to thank her for the mention and she replied saying I had a good website.

It comes as I am upadting my Castle Hotels page (to be online in a few days). Lots of new castles this year. I enjoy going to look at them, even if they are too expensive for me to stay at myself! wink

I must stretch my dollars to cover as much of Ireland as I can. Spending a couple of months a year in Ireland is not cheap, as you well know Corey.

Michele

yesiree · Guru

Glad to see they have a free link...when I tried to find it, with a search from their website, they asked me to pay for a subscription. Looks like they have a few ways to get at their articles.

That article and her accompanying article "The Jig is Up" does a good job of talking about the increasing prices in Ireland without striking financial panic. Yes, it's more expensive than five years ago, but you will still get a good experience...and you can find ways to save some euros.

Michele Erdvig · Host

Corey,

I enjoyed the articles too. I'm not complaining about the prices in Ireland. I just roll with the punches. After over 35 years of travel to Ireland, I have seen it all. And I know how to stretch my money. By not staying at castle hotels.

On my first trip to Ireland B&B was 1.50 pounds. You could get a feast of a meal for the same price. A pint of Guinness was 18 pence. Petrol was 39 pence an imperial gallon (actually more than an American gallon!). A castle banquet cost 4 pounds. I could have bought a cottage in Dingle with farmland for 500 pounds.

But everything is relative. Incomes were far less then so it probably equates to the same amount if I had the time to sit down and figure it out. wink

Michele

-- Edited by Michele Erdvig at 16:01, 2008-09-03