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Around Crosshaven
The original plan today had been to head off on the road and see some of the coast, but the weather wasn’t up to much. And, frankly, neither were Jolene or I after the previous late night. Instead, we...
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Off the grid
Just so nobody panics, there will likely be no new posts until Thursday or Friday this week. Joleen and I are heading off into the wilds and islands of the South-West this morning and won’t be back...
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Cape Clear and Sherkin Island
The early start wasn’t as early as intended. The sky turned out to be greyer than we were promised by the weather, though it further promised that this wouldn’t last and that things would improve...
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Bantry via Sheepshead
Waking did not come easy. Joleen’s 8:30 breakfast request was something she’d be taking a ribbing about. Mind, we did still had a lot to do and see so an early start would still be useful. Even if we...
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Bere Island
We snuck out of Feargal’s early on before he woke up as we had to meet another friend of Joleen’s to catch a ferry. Caitriona (I think I have the spelling right) lives in Crosshaven, but has a family...
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Dursey Island
My last day of island-hopping started with an 8:00 rise after getting a text message. This was unusual in that the side of the island I was on didn’t have any mobile reception. After mentioning this to...
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Avast, me hearties!
Arr! Pieces of rum and bottles of eight! Klingons off the starboard bow! I’ll bilge-haul ye, ye naval cur! And other piratical rantings. I lucked out a little with the dates for my visit to Ireland. My...
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Boating and beering
I spent most of the day working on stuff for Jolene. She takes and sells photos and needs a website set up to make this as easy as possible. The least I can do in return for all the generosity she and...
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Bye-bye Eire!
Nothing much about today to report apart from that I had to leave the gorgeous West Cork and my fantastic hosts. Yes, I got that website going (as a testbed) and with any luck Joleen can get it up and...
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Coast of Cork
Coast of Cork by Joleen Cronin Back in June 2008 I took a quick trip to “real” Ireland a.k.a Eire to visit the lovely Joleen Cronin who I first met in Phuket, Thailand. Details of the couple of weeks...
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