Page 13 - Trip to Ireland Final Flip Book

After 12 hours

sleep, we are

roused by the off

key notes of the

upright piano in

the owner’s

quarters. It must

be June 10 we
th
decide and we are

not happy to get
up but with the

incessant piano

we really have no choice. Breakfast is 2 strips of bacon which is

more like Canadian bacon, one fried egg and 2 sausage links

with toast and thick slices of untoasted brown bread. There is

tea and jam too. I put cream and sugar in my tea again and am

quite satisfied with the meal. There is a couple from Italy at

breakfast with us. The woman doesn’t speak English and the

man only a little. There is also a couple from Holland who look

so much alike they could be brothers. Yes, brothers – she isn’t

very pretty but is very friendly. They come to Ireland every

year – at least he does on business. I guess this year she joined

him.

The beautiful sunshine we had been so happy to see when we

first got up fades and rain rolls in. Then just as quickly stops.

We pack up cameras and go out across the road to shoot the

castle and the remains of an old stone building. We waddle

around in the grass and climb over rocks to get the right angles.

Unfortunately Ireland is scared by telephone poles and wires

that seem out of place with all the ancient ruins.

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