Kytelers in Kilkenny City is one of the oldest inns in Ireland. The original owner was Alice de Kyteler, born in 1280 to wealthy parents. She prospered as a money lender – certainly unusual for a woman of that era. She married 4 times, amassing substantial wealth along the way as each husband succumbed to […]
I know! I know – don’t look a day over 63!! Well, in Covid times, I bemoaned my spending my birthday (TWICE!!) on my own shores – a rarity over the past 45 years. That’s not a birthday thing – it’s a teaching thing, dating back to our main vacation falling in July and August. […]