County Views.128

My first three nights in Ireland last November were a bit of a splurge-treat to myself and Nikos, with whom I traveled since he’s now living and working in Dublin. We stayed just outside Galway in a lovely heritage hotel, which aside from quite lovely grounds (and golf course, yes) on the edge of Lough Corrib also boasts two Pullman Dining cars from the original Orient Express train. In fact, two of the cars on which the 1974 movie Murder on the Orient Express was filmed. He took the photos of me with my cocktail (an Irish-themed drink, as I recall)  at dinner our first night, before we headed over to the private theater in the main hotel (behind the dining cars, which you see in the photo above) for that evening’s screening of, you guessed it, the 1974 Murder on the Orient Express :-). Staying with my trend of working through all my unposted 2023 photos this month, I’m sharing here every remaining photo taken in and around the grounds of that lovely hotel which I’d gladly visit again, if I again find such a nice off-season deal as we enjoyed this visit.