Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Ireland

A few photos from Ireland...

Our first BB in Rosslare: O'Leary's organic farm

Our neighbours

More neibhbours

Our neihbours' neighbours




DUBLIN...
Street entertainment

I don't love my job...

 I love my job

 I am a sand dog...

I am not a sand dog!

 I am a stone statue of Oscar Wilde

 We pretend to be bronze statues... we've just finished work

I am still at work


Guinness is our main competitor...


Bloody Guinness marketing!!!


Look what it does to you...



NORTHERN IRELAND... Where you pay for your guinness in pounds and not in euros

Sunny day on the harbour

All's quiet on the Eastern front


Some peaceful tourists

Gone fishing

Even time for a little stretch...



WEST COAST Republic of Ireland

Pub Bed and Breakfast

View from our bedroom

New best friends



Wild, wild west

O happy cows

What is she doing?

She is doing yoga stretches

Same yogini, different angle, different asana

Inviting

Driving to the next stopover

Amen

Next stop is Roundstone...

 Amen indeed: roundstone

Downtown

Lining up for the tourists...

Lining up for the photos...

Very Irish and proud of it



Shall we catch some lobster for you?

OK then, with a guinness, please!


The Dingle peninsula

Mount Brendon peninsula

 Lala girl on the edge


Jojoboy happy

 Beautiful coast line

Seagulls like it
Sometimes they stop flying or fishing just to contemplate...

... or just to rest

Let's not talk about the sheep...

The walk as if they owned the peninsula...

Some even find time for romance...
Some appear to get lost

 2 tickets for the 2000 year-old visit of behive homes, please

Just rocks piled on top of each other: waterproof and warm inside


The town of Dingle



Irish people... beautiful, warm, proud

 A musician in the streets of Dublin

Yin and Yang in Galway

Listening (Hill of Tara, very impiortant Celtic sacred site)

Street artist in Dublin


Born catholic... living in Cork

Me too...

We have been together for a very long time, Donaghadee - Northern Ireland


Summer range, indeed - Cork

Blue in the face , Cork


 My very favorite. Hill of Tara



Last few days in Ireland at Buddhist retreat Centre

We spent the last few days at Dzogchen Berea, a buddhist retreat centre on the Berea peninsula. A place where people come to unwind, relax, meditate.


The cottage where we slept along with about 10 other people

Our shared kitchen

One of the meditation buildings


Standing meditator

Mediation with a view...


After meditation, the ocean appears bluer...


... or greyer, depending on your perception


Buddhas smile


Other buddhas quietly sit in the garden


Would be Buddhas wobble and try to smile in a garden


Horses are busy being horses

Cats are cats...


Others wave good to Ireland on the ferry in their own way.