The day started with a drive along part of the Sky Road and a visit to Kylemore Abbey. The weather this day was more typical of the Irish weather we've seen in the past - it goes from sunny to raining to cloudy to sunny, and then repeats again. The abbey is on a nice estate and you can visit the abbey (which used to be a castle or manor home), the chapel with its interior columns made of different colors of marble from the surrounding areas, livestock paddocks, a bakery, and a gift shop. The business of the estate today is run by an order of Benedictine nuns.
We arrived early in the morning before the crowd of tour buses so we managed to tour the abbey without it being crowded. We then walked the path to the chapel and got caught in about 15 minutes of pouring rain so we hung out in the chapel until it passed over. It's a fairly small chapel but quite nice. We had another leisurely walk past the lake as we returned to the visitor center to catch the shuttle to see the Connemara ponies. After we saw the horses, I made a quick circuit around the gift shop and picked up some soap and chocolates made by the nuns.
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