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More about this B&B a bit later.
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After a lovely breakfast Michael and I started our day's sight seeing at Dingle. The marina was bustling with activity as a group of young people were taking to the water in these small sail boats. There's a sailing school at the marina and these kids were really excited to be going out on the water.
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The sky was pretty dreary looking, but the water was beautifully calm - a perfect sailing day.
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Dingle is a fishing town and the marina is full of working boats as well as pleasure craft.
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I really enjoyed seeing all the bright sails on these little dinghies.
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Dingle is built up onto the first couple of hills, but you can see farmland beyond on the spine of the peninsula.
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This would be a great place for paddling a kayak, too.
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I lost track of the number of sail boats, but it was more than a couple dozen.
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We toured the peninsula for the entire day, with our first stop at Ventry beach.
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I don't remember the name of this ruined castle, but you have to pay to get in to see it up close. We opted for the roadside view instead of paying 5 euros each for a walk in a pasture.
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The next stop was an impulse one - the Celtic prehistoric museum and art shop. That was too good a title to resist. It turned out to be one of my favorite stops, and I'll talk more about that on my post for Sept 8th.
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A stone carver displays and sells work here.
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When you walk into the main shop, this nest of fossilized dinosaur eggs is the first thing you see. I knew we were in for an interesting visit.
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The museum takes up much of this place, but there's also a nice gallery shop and the proprietor is a very interesting chap by the name of Harris Moore - a hammer dulcimer player. As I said, more on this visit on a later post. For now, I'll just show a few images from the museum.
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There's a nice selection of artifcats from neolithic and bronze age eras from around Europe and parts of the middle east.
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Most of the displays have good information to explain what you are seeing.
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Harris has been an avid collector of these types of artifacts for the past 30 years and I very much enjoyed looking at the collection.
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I wish I had photographed the info card on these fertility symbols.
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These are bronze age artifacts,
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as are these, and . . .
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these,
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and ditto. I think the Star Trek Ferengi idea must have come from the middle figurine.
1 comment:
its called a bidet
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