Sunset Logh Corrib Galway. Irelands largest lake
On our first visit we headed for Galway in the West. Our destination a cottage on the banks of Lake Corrib, weaving our way along a winding road following the twists of the lake. This time it was September and we were heading a little further North West to County Mayo, where my other half’s Gaelic roots spread deep under the peat bogs.
Well that was the plan as we nosed our way through the streets of the ‘Fair City’.
“Dublin is not Ireland,” the other half grumbled his dislike of the bustling commercial metropolis as we made yet another wrong turn.
The original Gaelic name for Dublin is Baile Atha Cliath, which means ‘town of the hurdled ford’. Some things, it seems, never change.