Friday, July 13, 2007

To the Bazaar


Sweets!





Boat ride on the Bosphorus


















Transit: into the green







Subtle packaging in the Duty Free shop at Heathrow...

Ireland

Itinerary: Landed in Shannon, went north, then south. The following posts are in order of the trip.


Better Map of our Trip


[legend: Purple-> bus, reddish-> tours, yellow-> train]

Galway

Lynch's house walls or something like that. Skull and crossbones at the location where Lynch's son was hung- by Lynch himself.

Our first lunch in Galway. SO healthy.







Connemara (the wild west)

These were mussel farms in the middle of the fjord.
Common vista in Connemara



Stopped for sweets in Clifden Town...
Kylemore Abbey


Fuschia- Ireland is rife with Fuschia.

Peat!

Water under the bridge.



Thursday, July 12, 2007

Inishmore- one of the Aran Islands






View from Dun Aengus- old fort on top of the cliff. Prehistoric, Bronze Age site, 1000 B.C. or earlier, they say.







Gulp.





Dun Aengus, fort walls falling into the sea on the left.