Sunday morning - FIRST IRISH FRY FOR AGES!
Back in Hunters Run! Just around the corner of our old house was John's new place. Donal friendly very generous (as was John - this goes without asking) letting us live in his house for our stay. And ... something I couldn't have dreamt of ... the two of them prepared a huge big fry for breakfast. Now I actually felt like being home again! Dajana seemed to have her difficulties with this heavy kind of breakfast.
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Dublin at night ...
taken on our way to roundwood near sally-gap.
I admit, this really isn't best quality ... my camera doesn't like taking pictures without illumination and without using flash. But I had no tripod and the car didn't serve so well as a substitute. With a little imagination, you can actually see the Dublin Bay on the upper right corner ... (C:
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Monday morning
we were heading for Glendalough, a famous monastry site in Wicklow. There's no pictures of the night in Roundwood - for good reason. I wouldn't want any evidence of it (c:
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Dajana and John at Glendalough
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My Sister and me at Glendalough
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nice lake - way too cold for a swim though
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no, this is no big rock - just a stone and the camera on the ground
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This monastry area is big! Its park is very nice too.
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there was a sign pointing upwards the hill saying "waterfall"...
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... in expectation of something very high and impressive...
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we made our way up the hills
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making Dajana to pose instead of us
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... and this is it ... the waterfall.
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...although it took us a while
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... just until halfway to the top...
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...to realise ...
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... that this was already it ...
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and that there was no other waterfall to come :-)
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.. it was nice though, ...
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fresh air, a lot of green,
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... a nice walk
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... some memorials of unknown purpose (actually, I didn't pay so much attention) - mail me, if you know something about it!
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and finally - what tourists would usually come to Ireland for ...
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... the ruines!
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... churches, chappels, ...
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high-crosses
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gaelic signposts
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... a lot of green ... (didn't count them, but I assure you - at least 40 shades !)
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Glendalough Roundtower
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waterfall no. 2
if you look really hard, might actually see some water falling down from those rocks over there in the middle of the scene
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wicklow moutains...
typical scene. narrow valleys, rocky ground and those 40 shades ;-)
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private property
says this sign here ... this is not to prevent you from entry, merely to make sure you won't sue anyone, if you happen to slip or so.
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sheep crossing
Now this could have been the photo-highlight ... it is just those old digital cameras, you know. Initialising, focussing ... These sheep are so well adapted to traffic - they're occupying the road and the other second they see a car and just walk orderly in a nice row. Well brought up ... those wicklow-sheep.
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Lough Tay
looking towards Sally Gap - this great place can be found right beside R759 between Roundwood and Sally Gap. Not only the view is amazing - so is the road itself. Don't attempt to use it in winter, unless your car has winter-tyres and you have some expierence with ice and snow. At night-time deers might cross randomly ... all in all - amazing.
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Lough Tay
now this actually is Lough Tay - moreover its north-eastern part again looking towards Sally Gap.
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Lough Tay
I told you - amazing.
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Lough Tay - south end
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Lough Tay
from what I was told - this lake is owned by the Guinness-family.
I cannot help it ... to me the water and the banks ... it just looks like one enormous pint (c: ... but maybe I'm just desperate.
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Roundwood City Centre
uhm ... or the better part of our Sixt-Peugeot 206's interior. I intented to show the display saying 28 deg. Celcuis outside ... pretty good for September in Wicklow Mountains.
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Roundwood City Centre
almost the same pic - ... interesting could be, that we've had sandwiches from this Spar-Store to the right -and what can I say ... they were just superb. It is the best place for a decent and still quick lunch, if you don't want to bother going into a pub or restaurant. I haven't tested the Chippers a little further up the road - but so far, SPAR is best (C:
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