Since my last blog and writing in Inish Turk I have been back in the Dublin area, meeting up with Arran and Teresa and spending times with family and friends. Later I first went to Roscommon and spent a week in the beautiful Abbey Hotel pool, helping a couple of women get over their nervousness and get their legs kicking in the water. Then I took a bus to county Sligo and visited several of W.B. Yeats haunts and stayed in a hostel in Strandhill beside the sea. Had great fun assisting a group of volunteers for two days with autistic children surfing in the aquamarine seas of the Atlantic. After Sligo I went to Donegal and spend a wonderful week in Malin Head, the most northerly point of Ireland; stayed at the Sandrock Hostel, walked a lot, met lovely people, and saw basking sharks leaping happily from the sea! Saw Danncing at Lughnasa in Letterkenny, spent a night in my favourite hostel in Galway, cycled to the Killarney Lakes, briefly visited Cork in the south of Ireland and returned to Dublin on a sad note. One of my best friends had passed away a couple of days before. I was glad to be in Ireland to spend some time with her in July and later with her family. I feel privileged also to have been in Ireland when my favourite English teacher died at a good ninety plus year old age.
It was especially good to be here for my cousin Helen's 70th birthday party, August 31st.
I have so many memories, this blog cannot begin to describe! Meantime, close up now. I will go to see my lovely 96 year old Auntie Evelyn soon and before I leave for Madrid this afternoon. It has been a wonderful three months and now, my Camino pilgrimage!
It was especially good to be here for my cousin Helen's 70th birthday party, August 31st.
I have so many memories, this blog cannot begin to describe! Meantime, close up now. I will go to see my lovely 96 year old Auntie Evelyn soon and before I leave for Madrid this afternoon. It has been a wonderful three months and now, my Camino pilgrimage!
