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Bicycle trip in the South West of Ireland 1996
Courtmacsherry, a view of the waterfront from the other side of the
bay ©
Watercolour by Ole Jacobi 1996
We stopped at Peter Wolstenholme's pottery and bought a lovely glazed
rectangular dish with a representation of the waterfront, almost obscured
by a cloud of white birds which we were told is a common sight at certain
times of the year. The next stop was at the bottom of the bay, at Timoleague
which has an interesting old abbey to look at. It is a fairly well-kept
ruin giving a vivid impression of the abbey as it must have been before
it fell into disuse, but somehow spoiled by the very recent burials marked
by tasteless plastic flowers and ornaments. Out of the bay again on the
other side, we turned inland on the road to Kilbrittan where we found a
B&B after one miss at a place with a marvellous view. Generally, it
is our experience that people hate to turn you away when they have no vacancies,
as in this case, where a very nice woman phoned to the next place up the
road and got us accomodation there. It turned out to be a house where the
parents had gone to the races for the day, and left the running of the
B&B business and the care of a much smaller boy to two teen-age boys
who did us very well. Present also was an English couple, a veterinarian
and his wife, very talkative people with decided views on the awfulness
of all things modern.