I’m not sure how historical this bog village really was. Each hut in the collection was stuffed to the rafters with old, decrepit stuff but I’m not fully persuaded they were all of the era they purported to be. A lot of it just looked to be old junk, but not necessarily of the claimed 18th-19th century.
There’s a very narrow pathway laid out along the Cliffs, bounded by a steep drop to the ocean below and an electrified fence on the other, protecting, I guess, these cows.
We stopped at lots and lots of castles and other ruins.
Click any image to see them all enlarged (but not if you’re seeing this in an email – you have to click through to open in your browser).
Click any image to see them all enlarged (but not if you’re seeing this in an email – you have to click through to open in your browser).
We spent the first two weeks of August, traveling around Ireland. We started in Galway and proceeded more or less counter-clockwise, including time in Ulster, then Donegal, before traversing the island to Dublin and our flight home. I shot over 1000 frames, so expect to see lots of verdant landscapes, castles and other postcard-genre, tourist shots over the coming days and weeks.
The tour was designed for photographers and their non-photographer partners and I was expecting to travel around in a small coach. In fact we were in one of those gigantic modern buses. The first couple of days in Galway town were quite rainy but then we got on the bus and left. Here are a few snaps through the window of the bus before we made our first stop.
Well FedEx are taking their sweet time about delivering my monitor and images are backing up. Since the 17th of August (it’s now the evening of the 21st) their tracking site has listed my monitor as being “in transit.” From the 18th through the 20th a note said the next tracking update would be on the 20th but that didn’t happen. On the 21st that note disappeared but no other update occurred. Of course, the total time is still within the class of service I agreed to (speeding it up would have added $97) but as a Manhattanite I’ve been spoiled by years of getting Fed Ex shipments days earlier than forecast. In the meantime, here’s an old image from the archives…
Couldn’t resist this homage to the classic Ealing Studios Stanley Holloway film, Passport to Pimlico when we passed this tube station.
