Ireland

I received a couple of emails from Roger and Kerry from Ireland. They are having a great time and the weather was even good although it did start raining in the past few days. They ended up in Donegal staying at this great place, Harvey's Point, where we had a fabulous Sunday Carvery buffet with the Carrs and the Curlings. This was very close to where we did our house exchange in 2000 and I emailed the phone number of Denis and Siobhan and the directions to the house. Roger and Kerry were leaving early that Sunday morning and didn't want to disturb them but drove out to the house and saw the view over Lough Eske and the Bluestack Mountains.



Susan and Alan enjoying the sunshine with the view from our house.



Rossnowlagh Beach. There is amazingly warm swimming in Donegal and northern Ireland.



Enjoying with the Curlings a fabulous dinner at Smuggler's Creek Restaurant...first the best oyster ever from the area and lobster.




They are still harvesting peat for burning...a great fuel. Neddy, the old donkey next door to us, spent most of his life hauling peat down from the mountain. We really enjoyed spoiling him with chocolate biscuits.



I asked these fishermen who were in the process of mending their nets if I could take
a photo of them. One asked for me to wait a minute and went and got his children to be in the photo. It was very sweet.



Alan and Susan and Jim and I with our "captain" after a harrowing boat ride to see Slieve League, the highest cliffs in Europe. In the guidebook it suggested doing it by boat to avoid the scary road to the cliffs...nothing could have been scarier than that boatrip. It's a wonder we all didn't end up at the bottom of the sea!