Mizen Head is an example of nature at it’s grandest and most powerful. We visited the Lighthouse Museum, walked the pathways and stopped at a beach nearby.
The Story
SPA DAY IN CLONAKILTY, AND THINKING ABOUT ISOLATION
We escape to Clonakilty for a wee spa day — of facials, pedicures and threading. Time to prepare for civilization.
EMOTIONS AND OCEAN WAVES RUN HIGH
Like storm with high winds that arrived in the evening, our emotions were fierce but ephemeral as we discuss the near future.
MY BIRTHDAY IN CASTLETOWNSEND
It was my birthday…and a perfect day. We went to a deserted, drizzly Castletownsend for dinner. So happy to be with my little (grown) girl!
FAMINE STORIES IN SKIBBEREEN
An event for the closing of the Coming Home: Art and Great Hunger exhibition enlightens us about the intense pain of starvation described by speaker Bob Geldof, and much more.
GOODBYES BEGIN
A full day and the beginning of saying goodbye to the places and people of Ballinatona and West Cork, Ireland.
SECOND TO LAST DAY IN BALLINATONA
MONDAY, OCTOBER 15 I wore Fiona’s fluffy white bathrobe downstairs, made a pot of tea, brought Saffi’s soft, golden blanket to the edge of the couch. She lay down at my feet, and I wrote. It’s been our daily routine. What a treat to have lived here. It was a perfectly clear day when Saffi […]