Slea Head

Today might have been the best day of this trip! It was actually a Plan B that Tom had to come up with because the ocean waves were too big to go out to the Great Blasket Island.

Tom drove us along Slea Head where we got to hang out with some sheep and then we got to spend some time at the Blasket Center, which honors the unique community who lived on the remote Blasket Islands until their evacuation in 1953.

We then left the Center on foot and hiked along the edge of the coast with the Blasket Islands always in our view. It was much more meaningful, I think, to have learned so much about the people who had lived on the island instead of just hiking on it.

Our hike today had the sound and view of the ocean waves, some rain at times, and some beautiful sun that made all of the green around us just pop. The big surprise had to be the beautiful horses that decided to join us at our lunch stop.

On our way back to Dingle, we stopped at a pub where Tom played guitar and sang. It was a perfect end to the Ireland part of our trip, and a perfect soundtrack for today’s video.💕🙂🇮🇪

Tonight, we are packing up to take the train back to Dublin tomorrow. I will post again after we are settled in Porto to begin “Part 2” of our trip.En savoir plus