Galway
Wet, Tuesday 22 January.
So what you ask is new? Is it always wet? Well I am told that it is, all over Ireland, all the time. The bus trip took 5 hours or so, lots and lots of water lying around in the fields, streams and rivers very fast flowing and gushy, and the other attraction was that as in Ireland all the fields are divided not by fences but by hedges in the land where there are no rocks, but rocks in the areas that there are. They still divide fields with rock walls, call it dry stone walling. So whereas in Germany and Austria the view is not interrupted constantly with fences and the place looks great, rolling hills and fields, here all the land is divided into small fields – consequently lots and lots and more fences. Must admit I like the rock wall fences.
Back later today to tell my thoughts and impressions of this part of Ireland which from anybody who has commented, I have been told it is lovely. Not sure that I will have too much time to go out and see too much out of town, but will get back to you.