This is the other soup we had in County Longford that I wrote about a few posts back. I want to dedicate this entry to the demise of the once proud Waterford™ crystal factory. I still find it difficult to believe the factory has made its last glass, pitcher, vase, or decanter. It is unfathomable to me that I will never complete a pattern made in Ireland or be able to visit the blowers working at their craft. It was a wonderful experience to be guided through the tour of the glassworks.

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This crab soup we enjoyed in Edinburgh, Scotland. Actually, it was a bisque. Someone asked me the other day the difference between a soup, a chowder, and a bisque. So I thought I would include the differences here. I found a site that answered all my questions too so will include the article and the website. We took the fairy from Belfast, Northern Ireland to Stranraer, Scotland and toured much of the country. I missed Loch Ness though so alas did not see the monster. It is in the very north.

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County Longford is an area that did not attract tourists until fairly recently. We explored the county in the 1980's to complete our quest of visiting all 32 Irish counties. One of the loveliest of the midland counties, County Longford lies in the Shannon basin and the upper catchment area of the River Erne. Longford is famous for its excellent fishing. We stopped for a quick lunch at a pub near the tiny village of Drumlish. I had a creamed spinach soup, and my children had the potato leek soup.

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We had this wonderful soup when we stopped for lunch at a pub in County Armagh in Northern Ireland. Pub lunches in Ireland were wonderful because most offered a daily special. The regular menu items were rather mundane so we always ordered the specials. This particuar "stew" as it was listed on the menu was particularly delicious. I got lucky that day as the lunch cook shared the recipe with me so I am able to share it with you. It features Ireland's best: seafood, cream, butter, and cheese.

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William Butler Yeats is my favorite Irish poet. He was raised in County Sligo and always said the county was his source of inspiration. I wanted to see his grave near Drumcliffe so on a very cold winter's day we drove to that isolated area. We stopped at a local pub in Drumcliffe for a pub lunch and to warm up and had the most incredible cheese soup I have ever tasted. Again, the quality of Irish dairy products made a dish like this exceptional. The cheese was so sharp it made my mouth pucker.

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I attended the Ballyshannon Folk Festival one year in Donegal, and loved the county so much, I returned one winter. We stopped at a pub for lunch hoping to get a bowl of soup to warm our frigid bones. Pub grub in small Irish towns can have some great offerings at reasonable prices. The menu often varies each day. The only soup listed was cream of celery and olive which did not seem very appetizing. But we both ordered it and were pleasantly surprised. It was hearty, flavorful, and rich.

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I only had cucumber soup served as a cold soup in the heat of summer before I tasted it warm on a winter's day in Limerick City in County Limerick in the Province of Munster in the midwest of Ireland. County Limerick boasts a vibrant bustling city in Limerick City as well as a charming rural environment. Limerick City has an interesting, colourful history, and its castles, ancient walls, and museums bear witness to this. Limerick City's 800-year charter is older than that of London's.

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