then it would be a good idea to go there once - or even more often.Nope, never been to Ireland.
then it would be a good idea to go there once - or even more often.
No, i Ccannot reach Ireland by trainMaybe for you. You can take a train most of the way.
But for all you know I might live on the West Coast USA, and me visiting Ireland for fun would release about 2.5 tons of carbon to the atmosphere.
Ok, ok …..I said most of the way.
makes one feel envious!Once rented a house for a week on a coastal clifftop overlooking Dingle Bay in SW Ireland. Beautiful white sand beaches to walk on and hardly any people. Autumn time with our feet toasting in front of a big peat fire in the lounge looking out over the bay, and a little country village nearby with a tearoom that the locals seemed to like. Served a glorious Irish version of a Devonshire Tea, and accents so thick that my wife had no idea the people around us were speaking english. Really idyllic part of the world. Had staff and customers in Dublin so used to visit there several times per year from my UK base. Liked the restaurant and pub scene in Dublin. Oddly, the best Peking Duck I've had anywhere in the world was in Dublin.
The Swastika Laundry was an Irish business founded in 1912, located on Shelbourne Road, Ballsbridge, a district of Dublin. Due to its name and logo being associated with the Nazi Party in Germany, the name was changed in 1939 but their logo endured.
In his Irisches Tagebuch (Irish Journal) (1957), the future Nobel Laureate, Heinrich Böll, writes about a year spent living in the west of Ireland in the 1950s. While in Dublin, before heading to County Mayo, he:
... was almost run over by a bright-red panel truck whose sole decoration was a big swastika. Had someone sold Völkischer Beobachter delivery trucks here, or did the Völkischer Beobachter still have a branch office here? This one looked exactly like those I remembered; but the driver crossed himself as he smilingly signalled to me to proceed, and on closer inspection I saw what had happened. It was simply the "Swastika Laundry," which had painted the year of its founding, 1912, clearly beneath the swastika; but the mere possibility that it might have been one of those others was enough to take my breath away.
I remember Dingle Bay well.Once rented a house for a week on a coastal clifftop overlooking Dingle Bay in SW Ireland. Beautiful white sand beaches to walk on and hardly any people. Autumn time with our feet toasting in front of a big peat fire in the lounge looking out over the bay, and a little country village nearby with a tearoom that the locals seemed to like. Served a glorious Irish version of a Devonshire Tea, and accents so thick that my wife had no idea the people around us were speaking english. Really idyllic part of the world. Had staff and customers in Dublin so used to visit there several times per year from my UK base. Liked the restaurant and pub scene in Dublin. Oddly, the best Peking Duck I've had anywhere in the world was in Dublin.
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