Look up Girona
We arrived in Girona on a blisteringly hot day. The temperature display in the car said 39C. We had to park in an area without shade, but whenever we could, we walked in the welcome shade of the buildings of this beautiful Spanish city.
Mad about Cork Derilicition
In the midst of a housing crisis and buildings up and down the country are left empty and rotting away. Follow Frank O’Connor and Jude Sharry on Twitter. The Derelict Ireland hashtag is full of photos of crumbling or boarded up buildings all over the country. Meanwhile, people live, 6 to a tiny room, in…
The Lights of Llafranc
The lights of Llafranc in Spain shine brightly near 1am in the morning after a wedding ceremony in a nearby hotel. Swimming there was a highlight of the year for me. Lovely calm and warm waters. As it’s the Mediterranean, there was barely any tide, so you could be sure how much beach was there…
One dog wants to be friends
One dog wants to be friends, the other one isn’t quite so sure!
Ices and Chat
Enjoying ice lollies in Coventry on a hot June afternoon.
Red and White Mushroom in the grass
An Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly amanita [*] in the grounds of Blarney Castle yesterday. It’s a poisonous mushroom found throughout temperate and boreal regions of the Northern Hemisphere, according to Wikipedia. It’s also poisonous, but these days death from ingestion is rare. It has psychoactive uses too, and it’s…
An evening above Dunquin Pier
Dunquin Pier at the end of the Dingle Peninsula sits below a steep grassy cliff. Last year I saw three teenage girls sitting on the edge of the cliff you can see in this photo. I got dizzy just looking at them but they weren’t in (much) danger. There’s a step below where many feet…
Grace O’Malley in Cork
Training ship Grace O’Malley docked in Cork recently.
The Three Sisters at Sunset
The Three Sisters on the Dingle Peninsula just as the sun sets.
Early Morning Mist
Mist and fog (the same thing?) gather in the hollows of an early morning last week near Blarney.
Hank and Ray in Charlies Bar
Hank Wedel and Ray Barron in Charlies Bar last night. There wasn’t a huge crowd but the music was oh so good. So good to hear Hank and Ray play again as we haven’t been in Charlies since before the pandemic started.
Sin é luí na gréine
Outside the Sin é pub in Cork on Saturday evening as we went to the Everyman Theatre to see Des Bishop perform.