England and Ireland Trip

I recently returned from my first trip overseas. I traveled with two of my sisters, my dad and step-mom to Ireland and England. It was wonderful!

I have nearly 1,000 photos on PhotoBucket that you are free to browse through. Here is the link: Ireland and England Photos

If you’re not on my FB page, and you’d like to see even more photos, you’ll find them there ☺ www.facebook.com/kathycarmichael

We flew overnight into London and stayed there our first day/night. I found it difficult to adjust to the time change and it took me day or two. The next morning we flew to Cork, Ireland where we rented a car, then drove to Glengarriff, Cork, Ireland where we rented a house for a week. Here’s a link to the house we rented: Glengarriff Cottage

You can click on More Images to see the interior of the house. It was wonderful and the owners were simply delightful!

We used Glengarriff as a hub for our daily tours to the Ring of Beara, the Ring of Kerry, Cobh, Bantry House, Kinsale, and to visit a distant cousin’s farmhouse in the Kerry countryside on the Beara Peninsula. We visited two stone circles in Ireland, and many castles and cathedrals. I can’t begin to tell you how lovely the area is. And the food was devine!

Next we took the train to Dublin. We stayed at a charming hotel and from there we visited Dublin and took a day-tour bus to the opposite side of Ireland—Galway! In Galway we saw Lynch Castle. After Galway we saw the Cliffs of Moher, then returned late that night to Dublin.

After another day in Dublin, seeing all the sites there, we flew back to London. Once there, one sister (Robin) and I remained in London while the rest of the family returned to the US. Robin and I took a bus tour to Stonehenge, Bath and Salisbury Cathedral (where we saw an original copy of the Magna Carta—which fascinated Robin and me, but we had to scramble to catch up with our tour).

We had another wonderful day in London, taking in as many of the sites as we could, then after two weeks away, we reluctantly and gladly returned home to the US. It was such a wonderful trip.

Book News

Chasing Charlie, the first book in my Texas Two-Step series is currently on sale (for a limited time) for only $.99 on Nook and Kindle.

I’m pleased to announce that My Southern Bride, the fourth book in the series, Monty Joe’s story, is now available!

In late July, a novella in the series, Western Pleasure, will be available and currently you can pre-order it on Nook, Kobo and i-Tunes. I believe it should be available on July 22nd.

Here's a little about My Southern Bride and info about the series:

MY SOUTHERN BRIDE: A freak Texas storm leaves Lori Palmer trapped with her worst nightmare: hunky rodeo cowboy Monty Joe Nelson, who knew her before she reinvented her life.

Injured by the storm, Monty Joe is forced to rely on Lori to care for him and his farm. But he doesn't trust Lori now any more than he did before she supposedly became a 'better person.'

For Lori, proving herself less-selfish by juggling a barn full of demanding animals and one cranky cowboy will be easy. Tripping into an intimate moment with a man who can't return love... that will ruin all she's worked to become.

THE TEXAS TWO-STEP, in series order:
Chasing Charlie _
Country Courtship _
Courting Trouble _
My Southern Bride
Western Pleasure_ (a novella)

Here are a few buy links: Nook, Kindle, iTunes, Kobo.

More Book News

SKULLDUGGERY INN SERIES

Suspects & Suitors, the third short story (novella) in the series, is now available on Nook and Kindle. It should shortly be available on Kobo and iTunes. Previously it was only available in the My Evil Valentine multi-author collection. So if you purchased that collection, you already have this story. If not, it’s available now :)

Here’s the blurb:

Suspects & Suitors (A Skullduggery Inn Short Story)

Amateur sleuth and owner of the Skullduggery Inn, Amy Sands, is up to her elbows in anonymous Valentine’s suitors. Problem is, one of them is threatening her life.

Skullduggery Inn Short Stories:
Mayhem on the Winterland Express _
My Favorite Corpse _
Suspects & Suitors