Tuesday, 23 August 2022

Postcard From The Blasket Isles.

 I arrived back in Cork yesterday tea time.  It's been a grueller of a trip and here's some photos from day one and our trip to the Blasket Isles:










Hope you're all well and I will catch up with the blogs I read.  It's amazing to have electricity, have a shower and sleep in a bed instead of a tent.  I did get to see Steve Hackett and visit the Blasket Isles.

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16 comments:

  1. Rachel Phillips23 August 2022 at 01:40

    Welcome back Dave. Looking forward to hearing more about your travels,

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  2. northsider 23 August 2022 at 01:44

    Thank you Rachel. I have the material to post several blogs. Travel definitely broadens the mind.

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  3. Tom Stephenson23 August 2022 at 02:31

    Visiting that place in the winter would be a bit of a challenge.

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  4. northsider 23 August 2022 at 02:42

    It would Tom. Even in August the sea had hill like waves. We wild camped on the Great Blasket and there were no toilets, shop and the cafe was closed. At least the seals sang a lament on the beach for us all night. Roger Waters could have recorded a record like Animals but dedicated to sea life. It was an incredible experience.

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  5. Yorkshire Pudding23 August 2022 at 02:52

    I imagine it's beautiful but quite melancholy out there on The Blaskets. Welcome back to Blogland. I kept coming over here to see if you were back.

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  6. northsider 23 August 2022 at 03:16

    Incredibly beautiful and melancholic YP. Very strange looking across to the mainland and seeing the houses lit up with electricity at night. It must have been an incredibly hard and stoic life living on such a remote island. The men use to row to church on a Sunday. Glad we paid the 35 Euros for the return ferry. It's good to be back and I have missed reading my favourite blogs like yours. Thanks!

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    1. Yorkshire Pudding23 August 2022 at 07:48

      Was there a McDonalds over there? Did you get to meet Ronald McDonald? The guy's a bloody clown.

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  7. northsider 23 August 2022 at 08:05

    There's a McDonald's in Killarney and Tralee but none on the Great Blasket Island YP. Ronald McDonald even got into Moscow. More than Napoleon managed to achieve.

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    1. Yorkshire Pudding23 August 2022 at 11:37

      I am sure that if there was a McDonalds over there and maybe a shopping centre, the Blaskets would attract more visitors. Also the seals could spend their well-earned blubber in "The Seal Inn" which sounds the same as "ceiling"!

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    2. northsider 23 August 2022 at 12:08

      Where did you say you have to visit off Scotland YP? I feel privileged to have visited it on one of my 'roughing it' holidays. You would have loved it.

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    3. Yorkshire Pudding23 August 2022 at 17:22

      You are very right. I would love to visit The Blasket Islands but not as much as St Kilda. That's the place. Definitely no McDonalds there - just the sound of the sea and the wind. Looking forward to more tales of your trip out there to the edge of Europe.

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    4. northsider 24 August 2022 at 00:26

      St Kilda. It sounds a great place to visit. The Blasket islanders were mighty people.

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  8. local alien23 August 2022 at 11:48

    You had an awesome trip . Lovely photos

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  9. northsider 23 August 2022 at 12:11

    That beehive hut in the first photo was incredible Linda. Apparently some lady raised a family in one of these round dry stone constructions. They are about 3 feet wide. Hats off to these mighty Blasket people. Thanks Linda.

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  10. Debby23 August 2022 at 16:22

    THat is the first time that I remember hearing about Blasket Isle or beehive huts. Off to visit Mr. Google. PS: Welcome home!

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  11. northsider 24 August 2022 at 00:27

    Thanks Debby. There are lots of these drystone huts on the Dingle peninsula.

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