Last night I went to an excellent talk by traveller and adventurer
Jasper Winn. This was one of the
Wilderness Lectures, a series of wonderful talks held every year in Bristol on the theme of travel and adventure. Jasper has a lifetime of travel experiences to draw on: cycling across the Sahara (and back), spending a year with a Berber family in the Atlas Mountains, crossing South America on a horse, the usual sort of thing we all do now and again...or maybe not. This particular talk was about a solo kayak trip around the coast of Ireland. Although I enjoyed it very much, I had no desire whatsoever to take up kayaking. Or canoeing. Apparently there's a difference although I wouldn't know...
When I got home I dug out my photos from the cycling trip I did earlier this year in Ireland, from Mizen to Malin (the scenic route). Unlike Lejog, I had decided not to write a blog whilst on this trip, although I wrote copious notes. In hindsight, I rather wished I had (blogged I mean). I had been determined to carry less stuff on this journey than I had on Lejog and the laptop became a victim, along with the shampoo and conditioner (a buff will cover a multitude of sins including hair that has not been washed for a month) and most of the clothes (pah, cleanliness is over-rated anyway). Hopefully the notes from the journey will at some point form the subject of a future book, which is one of the reasons this blog is suffering from a little neglect lately. But I thought I would take the time to post a few pictures, not least because it will force me to sort them out rather than leave them all stuffed in a virtual shoebox called 'pictures of Ireland'. Here are a few of my favourites in no particular order:
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Maccarthy's AKA McCarthy's Bar
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| The Railway Inn, Dingle Peninsula |
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| The Doolin Dolphin |
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| A popular Irish drink |
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| Beara Peninsula |
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| Cliffs of Moher |
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| Baby Hannah's, Skibbereen |
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| Gus O'Connors, Doolin |
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| Inishmore |
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| More scenery than you can shake a stick at |
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| Maeve the goat queen |
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| Giant's Causeway |
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| The Conor Pass |
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| Donkey, Inishmore |
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| Connemara |
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| Connemara horses |
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| Blue Sky in Ireland... |
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| Typical weather - Ireland |
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| More typical weather - Ireland |
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| Titanic Exhibition, Belfast |
It's all very well posting pretty pictures, but this is time that could be spent writing!
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I believe it is known as displacement activity...knuckling down to it right now! :-)
ReplyDeleteThis is one of the routes that I plan on doing next year. Your pictures have worked as a great incentive for me to firm up on my plans.....Thanks Ellie....
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Thanks Trevor. We travelled a lot of the west coast and then around the north to Belfast. It was fabulous, I had a marvellous time, I'm sure you will too. I'll post our route up later today.
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