IRELAND 2024

  • Ireland: Day Two

    Ireland: Day Two

    It would seem I am not the first to rise early this morning. Although I beat the alarm clock set for six this morning by almost two hours, it appears the guests from the neighboring cottage are already up. In our cottage however, it is just me and the big blue couch; a perfect companion…

  • Ireland: Day One

    Ireland: Day One

    High pitched birdsong mixed with the soft hoots of the woodland pigeon; it is the comforting sounds that woke me from my much-needed sleep this morning at 5:30 a.m. I am back in the simple yellow and red stone cottage up the road from the River Blackwater and the Youghal Bay, curled up on the…