We had dinner at this pub in Letterfrack...Veldons of Letterfrack...then on to Spidal to a B&B where we were greeted warmly by the owner Frances and her husband. Played a few games of Farkel which Judy won and won and won. that darn Judy!!!
See how different the landscape is? It was beautiful though. The roads are like roller-coaster rides + bumpy. Auggie is doing a wonderful job of driving, something I would not even attempt.
This shows a bog marsh where the natives literally dig up the earth to burn the turf and heat their homes...they make piles of the stuff and cover it over with plastic.
There are streams and waterfalls all along the road.
A view of the western terrain and the rock walls which are everywhere.
Here's an Irish fixer-upper...wanna go in halves? We could put a roof on and then ta-da!!!! somewhere to live.
We are on the west coast side now and the terrain is totally different...more brown and lots of bog marshes.
This stuff is called Gorse Bush or Whinn Bush and is everywhere...it's loaded with prickle-like thorns.
This display depicts a schoolhouse in the 1930's where there are only a classroom full of BOYS...no girls, and the teacher is teaching them the alphabet, and when you listen on the phones the locals tell you how it was in the classroom in those days. "Bloody hard" one said and they were not allowed to teach them their native language, Irish (Gaelic) but had to teach English..the teacher held a small private tutoring class at the library at 5 p.m. after school was over to teach them English under cover.
National Museum of Country life
Sheep in the field on the way...the lambs are so cute...they jump and play with one another like little clowns.
Today we traveled through the countryside to a museum named the National Museum of Country Life where we got to see how the people lived years ago. Here is a couple of photos of the terrain en route and one inside the museum and outside.
We had dinner at this pub in Letterfrack...Veldons of Letterfrack...then on to Spidal to a B&B where we were greeted warmly by the owner Frances and her husband. Played a few games of Farkel which Judy won and won and won. that darn Judy!!!
See how different the landscape is? It was beautiful though. The roads are like roller-coaster rides + bumpy. Auggie is doing a wonderful job of driving, something I would not even attempt.
This shows a bog marsh where the natives literally dig up the earth to burn the turf and heat their homes...they make piles of the stuff and cover it over with plastic.
There are streams and waterfalls all along the road.
A view of the western terrain and the rock walls which are everywhere.
Here's an Irish fixer-upper...wanna go in halves? We could put a roof on and then ta-da!!!! somewhere to live.
We are on the west coast side now and the terrain is totally different...more brown and lots of bog marshes.
This stuff is called Gorse Bush or Whinn Bush and is everywhere...it's loaded with prickle-like thorns.
This display depicts a schoolhouse in the 1930's where there are only a classroom full of BOYS...no girls, and the teacher is teaching them the alphabet, and when you listen on the phones the locals tell you how it was in the classroom in those days. "Bloody hard" one said and they were not allowed to teach them their native language, Irish (Gaelic) but had to teach English..the teacher held a small private tutoring class at the library at 5 p.m. after school was over to teach them English under cover.
National Museum of Country life
Sheep in the field on the way...the lambs are so cute...they jump and play with one another like little clowns.
Today we traveled through the countryside to a museum named the National Museum of Country Life where we got to see how the people lived years ago. Here is a couple of photos of the terrain en route and one inside the museum and outside.
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