May 2

2003/05/02 - Friday

• 8:12 am: up, clear day, pounding noise in the distance

• 9:18 am: breakfast
• 9:47 am: out
• 10:40 am: beach near Killybegs

• 11:15 am: Kilcar, Glebe Mill
• 11:56 am: Bunglass

Slieve League

• 1:24 pm: Carrick

• 2:59 pm: Killybegs
• 3:51 pm: Donegal

• 4:36 pm: saw castle, leaving now
• 4:51 pm: Donegal craft village
• 5:18 pm: Off to sligo with Susan driving (EEK) I didn't really mean to put that all in caps but accidentally hit the lock key.
• 5:50 pm: Somewhere near Castlegal and there's an unlabelled castle off to the west that's friggin huge.
• 5:51 pm: Cliffony. Passed a cute little bar that looked more like an Italian restaurant.
• 5:56 pm: Really pretty mountain range off to the east just outside grange.

• 6:05 pm: Drumcliff high cross

We almost didn't stop here. We hadn't planned to do so and it was pure luck that I happened to see the Drumcliff cross and suggested we stop and take a look. It wasn't until we got up to it that we realized what we'd almost passed by.

• 6:39 pm: Leaving. Just saw Yeats lounge bar
• 6:48 pm: Sligo, big town, large butts
• 6:53 pm: Out of sligo on the n4. Lots of clouds all around with the sun beginning its descent to the west.
• 6:58 pm: On the n17 toward Castlebar and Westport. Pretty Irish country with gorse all around along with pine trees, oh and sheep. everywhere.
• 7:09 pm: Just passed the turnoff for Gillighans world, the famed hill of the fairies.
• 7:13 pm: tobercurry. Pircing uillean pipe music on rnag.
• 7:20 pm: Curry
• 7:22 pm: Bellaghy
• 7:33 pm: Swinford. police checkpoint looking for? seatbelts?
• 7:45 pm: Turlough. Church tower that looks newish but pretty just to the left of the road. Turlough church
• 7:47 pm: We're driving through postcard country. Pretty rolling hills, stone fences, cows, horses and trees all over. With the sun setting off to the west, everthing has lighting that is good for picture taking.
• 7:49 pm: Castlebar
• 8:05 pm: Westport (tidy town)
• 8:16 pm: Westport quay. pretty pretty pretty. lots of large houses, plano large.
• 8:37 pm: here @ Cuaneen house
• 9:09 pm: salmon dinner @ Derrylahan pub

• 10:14 pm: roger?, man from France & Ennis on Sunday. Musicians coming in for a photo shoot.
• 10:22 pm: sound of a moose?
• 10:26 pm: announcements
Brendan (Armagh)
not sure who else
• 10:42 pm: music has paused or is really quiet although the bar is quite noisy! There is a wide variety of people here, pre-teens to 90 easy. We need music & dance!
• 11:04 pm: back

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