My girlfriend and I had a lovely time at Allaye's Cottage. We arrived exhausted from a rough few days of travel, which made her hospitality (and the peace and quiet of a little country cottage) that much sweeter. I ended up sleeping for eleven hours.

We spent the next day hiking around the photogenic countryside where we met one of her Irish-as-can-be neighbors. Despite the soggy ground, the sky was perfectly clear and we could see all the way to the coast. Stunning-- and we couldn't have had the experience in a hotel or tourist-trap B&B.

I ended up leaving my electric razor behind in a jet-lag induced haze, and Allaye was kind enough to post it back to me.