Dear Rita
Thank you for your comments and i can only say that touring with you has always been a pleasure. Your love for Ireland, and especially rural Ireland, has always made my touring easy as i never tire of our unspoiled countryside. The granite mountains and glimmering lakes of Connemara, the limestone hills of county Clare and its awesome cliffs of Moher, the sandstone mountains and glacial lakes of Killarney in county Kerry and the rugged peninsulas of Dingle and Iveragh and Beara. Then you can add in the beauty of Kinsale and Cobh and the south coast and the islands of Aran and Achill....i could go on. How could you ever get bored with all of this. My job is a pleasure and especially when i witness the affect it has on those who appreciate the peace and quiet and beauty of the countryside. The great friends i have made i really do cherish and you are right up there at the top. There is a song called "Come back to Erin" and i think i could sing that for you. Thanks again.....and keep coming back here also.
Thanks for the fine words, Dave.
ReplyDeleteYou have brought up so many great places we've been to.
You didn't mention the replica famine ship at New Ross. That's one of my many fond memories and the getting a tree named after Ken & I in the Dunbrody Forest. The JFK memorial forest trees.
Or the trip to Inisowen peninsula and the fort at the tip of Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle. WOW !
How about the kids at Holloween in the town of Donegal? They were on their way to the local old folks home and they stopped and let me take their picture...........
How about Queen Maeve and Ben Bulbin and the gravesite of Yeats.
Oh! I could go on................
Well of course Rita if i were to mention all the lovely places we have been to i would have to write a book but you do evoke special memories by naming the ones you have named.You previously mentioned poor old Pathetic and i better explain who he was. We came across this poor Grey donkey at Slea Head on the Dingle Peninsula and we fed him some left-over chips (French Fries) and he loved them. We called him Pathetic because he had the most pathetic bray you ever heard from a donkey. He would break your heart. I always stopped at that place thereafter but he seems to have been moved elsewhere now and i have not had time to find out what happened to him. I would bet that he misses his chips.
ReplyDeleteHappy Memories
Dave
Putting a bee in your bonnet Dave.
ReplyDeleteNancy, Phyllis and I are thinking of a tour in October 2010 or April/May 2011. I will be in California from April 19th - 29th and that will be one of subjects of discussion.
Will keep you posted.
That's a tour with you. They are dying to meet you..............
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