Being a tourist for another weekend - Part2

Another weekend touring Ireland.

Saturday: Blarney Castle and the traditional kiss of the stone.


Inside the castle


Adn where everybody lining up fro a kiss of the stone


I've been surprised by the garden, this time,



And at the end of the tour, as a reminder of how changing is the weather in Irleand is... a beautiful blue sky almost cloudless.



On the next day we moved further south, in search of more sun, and ended up near Drunmore East.





And try to see the ship coming near Ireland, like that man:

Like the Metal Man in Tramore would say: "Keep out good ship, keep out from me, For I am the rock of misery".

Disturbing some seagulls on the way:


And even if we found some inviting signs, we did not go swimming:


Next week end back to Scubadiving...

Being a tourist for another weekend

Another weekend, being the tourist around Ireland ( around Dingle ) and playing with my large angle lens (sigma 10-20 ).

Dingle Peninsula


Still Dingle where Ryan Daughter has been partially filmed:


in Dingle town:

And no he's not drinking Guiness, just coffee

Pub in Dingle town, easy to find it's in front of the church... and if you want to find the church it's in front of the pub:


Dingle local shops

UnionHall

Just finish a quite typical Irish diving weekend down west cork. Here's the recipe:



- a big slurp of salty water

- 2+ pint of Murphys
- a rugby game ( to be watched at the local pub )
- some seals
- crabs, loybsters and anemones



- and finally meet and greet old and new friends

This toys are having fun without me...

Hidden in the greens...


Indiana ... running


away from


the bad guys

Surf surf in ... Eire

Waveriders Trailer from Waveriders on Vimeo.

The movie Waveriders (http://www.waveridersthefilm.com/) can be seen from the 3rd April in Irish Cinema theater. Time to go surfing....

Songs of the Month [Mar'09]

Fight Like Apes : Something Global

Violent Femmes : Blister in the sun

R.Plant & Alison Krauss : Please read the letter

Frank Black : Bullet

Vampire Weekend : Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa

Luck of the Irish dive sites

IMG_0140.JPG, originally uploaded by TOF2006.

I just stumble upon to this top ten dive site in Europe by Scuba Travel

1. Diving the Booroo The Zenobia, Cyprus
2. Blue Hole, Gozo
3. Cirkewwa, Malta
4. Booroo, Isle of Man
5. Blockship Tabarka, Scapa Flow, Scotland
6. Diamond Rocks, Kilkee, Ireland
7. Eddystone Reef, England
8. Secca della Columbara, Italy
9. Fanore, Ireland
10. Chios island, Greece

And guess two of them (Fanore and Kilkee) are actually at a driving distance from Limerick... to be more precise, number 6 is a regular dive site for our diving club... I'd also loved to go to Scapa Flow...
So let's go diving