Gardens – Monday 28 January 2008 Quite a good day – don\’t think we had rain. Got into the garden and weeded out old carrot patch and grass. We collected a trailer load of seaweed in the afternoon from the beach in front of the Croft ( farm house) about 150yds away from the houses. […]
Galway to Connemara Tour A great bus trip and one to fill in my day while awaiting the bus leaving for Dublin at 1.15a tomorrow morning. Went to Kylemore Abbey which was a beautiful house built by Mitchell Henry for his wife, who died a few years later. He was distraught so built a small […]
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 […]
Dublin to Cork. Sunday 20 January. Up this morning to catch the bus to Cork at 10am. What an interesting trip. As usual, grass is very green, lots of pooled water and rushing rivers and streams, only a few sheep and half a dozen cattle and a few bedraggled horses too out in the paddocks. […]
Now this is an interesting and pretty city! Belfast had nothing going for it. Unfortunate that the ferry and road entrances to the city were through commercial areas so it looked messy and most unattractive. There were a few things of interest about, but i didn\’t see any of them. Dublin – well feels exciting. […]