All travelers get sunny and rainy days, but we certainly can’t plan for them. No matter what, we just have to accept them as they come. And, although the weather was unsettled, with dark clouds obscuring everything and an occasional twinkle of sun, the scenery of Achill Island in County Mayo was still gorgeous. Keem...
When we entered Achill Island in County Mayo there were sheep everywhere. It just reminded me that the Wild Atlantic Way is the world of sheep. They are the stars of this ancient land. They graze the upland and hill territories un-bothered by strong winds or rains, and sometimes even pose proudly for the camera....
The so called ‘sacred’ places don’t actually do anything at all on their own. On their own, they don’t make the world a better place. But they stand for or represent something. They remind us of what’s important. They can trigger us to be in the right state of mind, they can help us to...
Despite a gloomy greyness, I was itching to climb Croagh Patrick in County Mayo with a hope of an occasional splash of clear sky that would allow us to take a few nice photos from 764 m over the sea level. The path up took us nearly 3 hours – we stopped every now and...
The story of a supreme tragedy staying behind the Doolough Valley gives it a power which touched me beyond of what I could imagine. A cross, that stays at its northern edge, is dedicated to the victims of the ‘Doolough Tragedy’. During the Great Famine in 1849, hundreds of people made their way from Louisburgh...
A beautiful coast, where friendly and unpretentious fishing settlements or nice sandy beaches and bays used to have that lazy and undemanding charm, was once such an attractive feature of the French or Spanish Mediterranean. Clean. Less crowded. Orderly. Peaceful. It used to be a pretty wild coast but tourism had taken hold all the...
We, humans, are capable of doing some amazing things. Our greatness is often expressed in a form of buildings. A fair amount of them are well-known, of course – museums, churches, operas, stadiums, bridges or temples whose replicas live on in souvenir shops, books, and countless photos. Some of them became defining symbols of a...
The Wild Atlantic Way provides a real treat for eyes. It’s such a rich world to drive through. The views just keep sweeping past for hours filling days from dawn to dusk. And nothing can prepare you for what you’ll see around the next bend. The palate of diversity is just incredible. Passing through Connemara...
The promise of something new the next day, and the next, the physical aspect of travelling, a simple act of moving on from one place to another had always been stimulating beyond belief. These are the things that make memories, right? One day we sailed off across the great sea of grass on the Lower...
And here we discovered another scenic drive – the 16 kilometres long Sky Road in County Mayo that took us out west from Clifden, onto the Kingstown peninsula, and back into Clifden. With the morning sun shining like a spotlight onto the Mother Earth, I thought that this road would be definitely on the podium,...