Lazy Days

2-22-06

Today, we went into Lahinch, the next town over, in order to buy supplies. This was our first experience at seeing the landscape in the day light since we only drove into town last night and couldn't see anything of our surroundings. We're only a few hundred feet from the water of Liscannor Bay. There's nothing around us but farm land, pastures and a couple of knobby golf courses (which we'll soon play).

We're getting to know some of the locals by name now. Everyone is so nice and accomodating. The world should takes notes. We have discovered that most of our neighbors are just temporary residents from Eastern Europe. They are mostly construction workers who have been hired to build a large visitor's center at the site of the Cliffs of Moher. The Cliffs are indescribable. I can only relate them to some of the cliffs you might see in Yosemite National Park; only, these make up the last step before the giant 1,000 foot fall into the Celtic Sea.
From the visitor's point on the cliffs there is a small medieval castle at the hightest point. From there one can look down along the cliffs and see a large set of castle ruins at the farthest point of the Mohers about 3 kilometers away. These are the ruins of the Castle of Moher. We asked how to drive to the ruins, but apparently there is no direct route to them. We'll have to secretly walk over to them one day I guess.