Drama abounds. Moodiness enhanced by the gray skies and light rain.
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Monthly Archives: May 2015
More drama. These are supposedly the highest cliffs in Europe.
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And the drama changes quickly. The very same cliffs two minutes later.
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Leaving the coast, over the coastal range into the interior.
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For all of its historical poverty, Ireland has certainly found the resources to build dozens of castles.
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Only 11 nuns live here…..
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The view from our hotel: Glen Abbey Castle Hotel in between thunder showers.
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One-Half of the actual hotel (all that I could fit in the lens).
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Someone had better advise the government that the forest has gone away and the nature and scale of their construction project has changed pretty dramatically.
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In every settlement, the pervasive and somewhat pungent small of “Turf”—a.k.a. peat—wafts through the winds. Peat remains a primary source of energy in these regions. It continues to surprise me that someone, sometime, somewhere, figured out that it is possible to burn this sludge (it is a soggy, muddy, mess of vegetation mixed with dirt) and that it burns almost as hot as coal and cleaner—when it is dry.
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