The Island of Ireland
Ireland is a truly beautiful place, from the mountains and lakes of Kerry in the south to the wilderness of Connemara in the west, the lush green country of County Wicklow in the east and the magnificent Giant’s Causeway in the north. There is so...
My resolution this year is to read more, and one of the books that’s been on my list for a long time is The Living Mountain. What a wee gem of a book this is! Written in the 1940s and only about 100 pages long, this is Nan Shepherd’s breathtakingly See More
The Isle of Barra in the Outer Hebrides looking so peaceful and picturesque in the winter sun today! There are various suggestions as to where the island’s name came from, but one suggestion is from Old Norse meaning ‘bare island’. Kisimul Castle, which sits on a small rocky outcrop in See More