We tidied up and left Cloonloo, heading west. Our first stop was in Ballina, advertising itself as the salmon capital of Ireland. Its situated on the River Moy, and hosts an annual salmon festival. Unfortunately, as our visit was on Sunday almost all of the town was shut. We did spot several fishermen up to their hips in the river, though. There were no catches while we were watching them.
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Alarms went off at 5:30 didnt get out of bed until 6. Tarragon didnt want to get up at all, he as between us on the king size bed (which he does not sleep on at home). Breakfast was included with the room, but we already had decided to go to a place called A Bite of Belgium and had reservations for 8 am. Kitty got to sleep a bit longer before the day of travel.
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I decided to get up for another early start for some sunrise photography in There was the huge Damien Hirst Verity sculpture. as in that people either love it or hate it. There was lots of apparent symbolism - standing on a pile of books, scales of justice, held behind her back, pointing a sword in the air and being pregnant. Typical Damien Hurst, if you look back at her from the sea wall, all t Read on...
The weather is getting better and better with a good forecast for all this week. We were born lucky. At least we werent hampered by the hordes of people today that were in Ardara yesterday to attend the graveyard mass in the nearby churchyard.
The Atlantic guest house can be for a self catering stay in Ardara in plush rooms and modern kitchen.
The hill heading north straight out of town was a ro Read on...
Got up early and packed up our bags since we had to bring our rental car back this morning. We also wanted to drop off our bags at the new hotel while we have a car and try the hotel to see if the room was ready early. Turns out we got lucky and a room was clean and ready for us. Anne and Camille went up to the room and got settled in and Cameron and I went to bring back our rental car. When we go Read on...
So we ended our day dragging out luggage (did I say weve been gone for 25 days?) to our bnb for last evening. So we started our day today doing the same thing.dragging out luggage from last nights bnb to the one we have for the next two days. We laughed as we saw people out for their morning walk with their dogs or their children or even their significant other and we were walking our luggage.
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Tuesday. We prepared to go ashore on Cape Horn and were given instructions on what to wear and how to board the zodiacs. I was very sleepy and relieved that our group was to disembark at 10:00 rather than 8. But the wind picked up again and the seas were rough enough that it became unsafe to go ashore, so we stayed on board and instead circumnavigated the Horn, which is an island. It was gray and Read on...
About 50 miles outside of Medelln is the granite monolith that dominates the surrounding landscape, at 2,135 metres.
El Peon de Guatape was once worshipped by the Tahamies indigenous people. In the 1950s, a group of visitors spent five days climbing to the top of the massive rock using a wooden board to ascend up the rocks long crack along its side. Afterward, a concrete staircase was built into Read on...
Thunderstorms have been forecast for the rest of the week but the storms were forecast in the afternoon. Wed read, also, that we should visit the Acropolis early in the day; 1 to avoid the masses of tourists and 2 to avoid the heat of the afternoon. We also figured that wed avoid any afternoon storms. The plan was to get to the Acropolis about 8:30 am, talk our time there and then go to the museum Read on...
Today I (Susan) was released from my quarantine to go on excursions and the parts of the boat outside my room! Of course, I was masked the entire time I was out. I certainly miss doing things with my sister, but I headed out anyway to take pictures for both of us. We drove around Oslo where I was able to get a few pictures from the moving bus of the fortress and the parliament. Oslo has some beaut Read on...