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:
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Welcome back Dave. Looking forward to hearing more about your travels,
ReplyDeleteThank you Rachel. I have the material to post several blogs. Travel definitely broadens the mind.
ReplyDeleteVisiting that place in the winter would be a bit of a challenge.
ReplyDeleteIt 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.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteIncredibly 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!
ReplyDeleteWas there a McDonalds over there? Did you get to meet Ronald McDonald? The guy's a bloody clown.
DeleteThere'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.
ReplyDeleteI 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"!
DeleteWhere 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.
DeleteYou 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.
DeleteSt Kilda. It sounds a great place to visit. The Blasket islanders were mighty people.
DeleteYou had an awesome trip . Lovely photos
ReplyDeleteThat 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.
ReplyDeleteTHat is the first time that I remember hearing about Blasket Isle or beehive huts. Off to visit Mr. Google. PS: Welcome home!
ReplyDeleteThanks Debby. There are lots of these drystone huts on the Dingle peninsula.
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