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A few (semi-) representative photos from our recent week in Ireland (Co. Cork and Kerry). Matched by a few impressions. Enjoying a panorama of the apparently lovely Glen of Aherlow. The Rock of Cashel has commanding views over the surrounding landscape. Inch Beach; isn't all the sun and (wind-swept) sand relaxing? As you can see, the boats at Kinsale shelter in a land-locked harbour. A view of the horizon from Sheep's Head Peninsula. You can see up and down the coast for miles meters at Mitzen Head. OK, so we had some rain (3 days solid, the rest showers) and coastal fog (2 days). Ireland is green and wet. Green as in Emerald Isle, wet as in "the wettest May in living memory" (according to Irish TV). Having got caught out in NZ, this time we were prepared for adverse weather—and we did wear our thermal underwear for two days in late May! Other impressions? No smoking where food is servered—fantastic! Guinness is over-rated (but the "noitulovE" ad is a brilliant although anthropologically inaccurate incentive to drink it). Where was all the music we were expecting to ooze from every open doorway? On a more serious note, the poverty was evident and many villages looked run down rather than "delightful" as described in the guide books. We were both saddened to hear how Irish grain was exported to England during the famine, which decimated the population to a staggering degree (for example, Sheep's Head Peninusla, population 600, was once home to some 8000). The ruins of abandoned stone cottages ...]]> http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F05%2F29%2Fireland-is-green-and-wet-and-wet%2F&seed_title=Ireland+is+green+and+wet.+Did+I+mention+wet%3F/feed/ 52.14335 -10.268651 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/