Seen on a billboard: You've traveled a long way, let us pour you a drink. Jameson Whiskey... Enough said 🍶
It's green, just like they say in all the books.
What better place to see a rainbow than over the Irish Sea? The Leprecan must be swimming under it, that's the secret place for gold.
When you step on a bus in yet another city, strange language, do I have the correct change?, and then go up the stairs to the front seat on a double decker bus-Then I know I'm living my fantasy life. How blessed I am every day. Even the days I think I'm a bit crazy for living like I do,
Been in the hotel bed for two days, resting. So, left the car to walk to find a replacement clip for my backpack, found them and the cinema. Toilet was a pay to get in. Memories of the Greyhound station in Minneapolis.
I am driving a five speed on the opposite side I am used to. I get so lost in the roundabouts. Five times I turned around in the same driveway, not counting the illegal U turns. Looking for my hostel, I turned where I thought it said, wound up on a desolate, rutted, dirt road with a tractor blocking the way. Peat bricks were being tossed in to it. I was on a bog road. I think I'm the only one of my friends that have been on a bog road.
Absence of graffiti. Refreshing how much easier on the eyes.
Smokers abound.
Two language country. Irish is very difficult.
Amazing new idea: Butlers in the buff. Apparently for your 'hen' party. I have missed so much.
Popcorn box at the movies folds over like a Chinese take away carton.
Saw bundles of thatch alongside the road for a new roof.
Sitting at the top of my favorite Victorian Garden of all time: Kykemore in Connemara. Tragic love story, went to ruin, the Benedictine nuns brought it back and is now an Abbey. What a fabulous project it was, underground heating for the 19 glass houses-peaches in Connemara! So much more.
Not by my own doing, I'm in Cobh, port of Cork. The departure point for millions of emigrants. My ancestors included. It's quite emotional. More people emigrating than is happening today. There is a small island in the bay, called little Alcatraz. Used the convicts as slave labor before being shipped out. Most for petty crime caused by hunger.
The shops here close for lunch and again at 5PM. How civilized.
Aspirin is prescriptive only.
Kilmuckridge: at a local hotel a group of men have been playing traditional music for free for 25 years. Hotel gives a free drink and cookies. One lady has not missed a night for the 25 years.
Aer Lingus plane no longer has sign for smoking/non smoking. Now it's for computers and phones. Those old ashtrays were too small anyway.
