Monday, February 19, 2007
Glendalough revisited
Having experienced walking in the Glendalough hills during snow and an almost white out, Michael the leader of the Bray Hill Strollers took us back to the same location again. What a difference a week can make. I have included two photos taken from exactly the same position from one week to the next and you will see why he wanted us to see it again.
This time we walked a lot faster, further and longer than last week. We also had a different group of people, including Paddy an experienced Mountain instructor and Himalayan campaigner and a campaigner of a different sort, the deputy leader of the Irish Labor Party. Liz who has been a Minister is working on getting out of opposition at the moment. We also had some one who has walked the whole 850 km long Spanish Camino de Santia trail on her own, three people who had climber Ben Nevis after completing a long walk on the West Highland Trail in Scotland, and then there was me. A great walk with lovely views over hills very similar to Scotland covered in heather and gorse. Paddy was a wealth of knowledge and lots of jokes.
"So there was this Australian who asked an Irishman how they got their Irish lawns looking so manicured. The Irishmen replied well it is easy. You simply level the space with a rake, cast out handfuls of lawn seed, fertilize with cow manure and then mow regularly for three to four hundered years."
This time we walked a lot faster, further and longer than last week. We also had a different group of people, including Paddy an experienced Mountain instructor and Himalayan campaigner and a campaigner of a different sort, the deputy leader of the Irish Labor Party. Liz who has been a Minister is working on getting out of opposition at the moment. We also had some one who has walked the whole 850 km long Spanish Camino de Santia trail on her own, three people who had climber Ben Nevis after completing a long walk on the West Highland Trail in Scotland, and then there was me. A great walk with lovely views over hills very similar to Scotland covered in heather and gorse. Paddy was a wealth of knowledge and lots of jokes.
"So there was this Australian who asked an Irishman how they got their Irish lawns looking so manicured. The Irishmen replied well it is easy. You simply level the space with a rake, cast out handfuls of lawn seed, fertilize with cow manure and then mow regularly for three to four hundered years."
It is hard to believe these photos were taken from the exactly the same spot only one week apart.
I spent a lovely couple of days down in the Wexford area with Cathy Daly who I met in Paris and is coming to Perth on the same exchange program as I am on. The 'l' isn't the only difference though - Cathy is tall, much younger than me and speaks with a lovely lilting Irish accent - oh and she won't tell you the time when you have actually said what a fine day it is.
I met a number of Cathy's family who all welcomed me to their home. Bill, Cathy's uncle took me for a lovely drive around Wexord County where we visited Tintern Abbey and Kilmore Quay for the important experience of seafood chowder and Irish soda bread at a pub in a fishing village.
Walking on Rosslare Harbour Beach
Lunch and a stroll in Kilmore Quay where there are a number of traditional thatched cottages
Love Cathy
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Mummles!
Your walks look amazing. I'm getting roughly 2 minutes of exercise a day (walking up the stairs at night, down the stairs in the morning). You look like you're having the best time. How's the course going?
Love Liz
Your walks look amazing. I'm getting roughly 2 minutes of exercise a day (walking up the stairs at night, down the stairs in the morning). You look like you're having the best time. How's the course going?
Love Liz
Mummles!
Your walks look amazing. I'm getting roughly 2 minutes of exercise a day (walking up the stairs at night, down the stairs in the morning). You look like you're having the best time. How's the course going?
Love Liz
Your walks look amazing. I'm getting roughly 2 minutes of exercise a day (walking up the stairs at night, down the stairs in the morning). You look like you're having the best time. How's the course going?
Love Liz
Liz the walking is amazing - I get an hour of exercise a day just getting to Uni so lots of preparation for the bigger walk on Saturdays. The course is going well and I am trying to work long days to get the assignments done early. Especially now, as I am using the time when I was inititally going on the field trip, (it has been moved) to go and see Jess Brass in Finland. She is a rotary exchange student and not allowed to go out of the country so I am going to meet her at her home. We are spending three nights in Turku where she is based and then travelling to Helsinki together to see some sights of the city.
I am doing an essay at the moment on the contradiction of trying to save global biodiversity while at the same time tackling global poverty in some of the fragile ecosystem areas. I may send you the draft for you to proof read for me.
Love Mum
I am doing an essay at the moment on the contradiction of trying to save global biodiversity while at the same time tackling global poverty in some of the fragile ecosystem areas. I may send you the draft for you to proof read for me.
Love Mum
Cath
You were not the 'odd man out' with the walkers in your group given your Bibbulman Track pedometer readings & Mt Augustus... to name just two!
Oh! .. New York..Finland.... what next??
Love reading the blog entries & pics
jealous to buggery!
love
steve
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You were not the 'odd man out' with the walkers in your group given your Bibbulman Track pedometer readings & Mt Augustus... to name just two!
Oh! .. New York..Finland.... what next??
Love reading the blog entries & pics
jealous to buggery!
love
steve
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