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since they were my warmest pants. I brought lots of shirts and
did some hand washing at the B & Bs. We pull into Killybegs
and notice the fish stench isn’t quite as ripe. We ask a local
woman where the laundry is and she directs us. M gets a kick
out of a Pub named “Faulty Towers” and I shoot a photo of a
beauty salon called Skinderalla’s which has the misfortune of
being next to an ugly head sticking out of the wall. M leaves
her clothes at the laundry not feeling at all warm and fuzzy
about her sweat suit. She expects it to be shrunk up in spite
her instruction to cool dry to damp.
We go off to Glencolumkille which a woman a breakfast had
said wasn’t much. We are surprised over and over all day as
the sun dances in and out in a hide and seek game over
beaches, towns and animals.
Dance there upon
the shore;
What need have you
to care
For wind or water’s
roar?
…What need have
you to dread
The monstrous
crying of the Wind?
To a Child Dancing
in the Wind
W.B. Yates
(1865 – 1939)
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