About a week ago, spent four days in Southern Ireland to see the tall ships beginning their race across to Scandinavia from Waterford. The countryside was beautiful and people very welcoming. Dropped my camera thou, so memories in mind and heart. The park around the Blarney Castle was so green and purple dragonflys buzzed around us. Never reallised so many castles. We went on a small boat up the Blackwater river.. and saw so many huge gannets fishing from the river's edge and the ruins of an abbey where one of the knight's templar is buried. A little dog called Pharoh came along for the ride.

We visited Cobh where the Titanic sailed from - wernt expecting the busy town with a large cathedral clinging to the end of the peninsular overlooking the widest estuary where the river flowed down from Cork

We drove over the Wicklow mountains and then watched life go by in the harbour in Wicklow.

Before we flew home we walked beside the river in Mount Usher gardens and more dragonflys, blue ones buzzed us. Then we waited in a chocolate lounge in Dublin airport, where all kinds of chocolate wizzed around on a conveyor belt and watched the planes being prepared for take off and small trucks toeing them across the tarmac with the blue Wicklow mountains in the distance before flying home in a small green plane with a shamrock on the side.