Galway, Ireland

Friendly as all get out. Smiles, light hearted, helpful, laughing. GREEN and rain then sun. Dramatic coast as Leon Uris said, "Harsley Beautiful". Fort on Inis Mor had a horseshoe design with the open end facing the cliffs to the sea. It had four walls around it made up of big rocks tumbled there, that stopped horses from approaching and footmen as well.

Honeymoon comes from the wine made from honey drunk at match making festivals. So there.

Ever wonder where sloegin comes from? Well, the sloe berries grow next to the juniper berries and there is the made in heaven combination.

Old castles were covered with a type of plaster that set up a chemical reaction that made them turn pink. Oscar Wilde restored one and did it as it was and: and it turned the required color, much to the shock of the locals that did not know or remember the history. Oops.

Enya started in the north in group. I did not know she even came from there, she is my sculpting music.

Saying: "Tight as a bulls ass in mating season" "It's as long as it is short" "We don't park our cars, we just abandon them"

Said of the Burren, an area of the west when foreign invaders came, "No trees to hang a man, no water to drown a man, no earth to bury a man" They left it alone.

The English invaders had the locals construct walls over mountains in the famine time for something to keep them busy and for some food.

Heard in a Catholic wedding in Galway that I had walked in on. Priest was recounting some point from St. Paul. Love is seeing it in others; if you cannot see that in the one across from you, you are in the wrong place-you should be in a mosque" He did not apologize and it was a wedding and it was Sept. 11th. Ouch. He thought he was amusing. God help him, and his parishioners.

Claddagh came from an area of Galway.