Dingle Peninsula, Friday, August 4

 The breakfast presentation was a colorful surprise. We ordered from the offerings listed on the chalkboard. The food was presented on a plate with the addition of a leaf of lettuce with a few pieces of fruit as two blossoms cut from their flowers.  A gorgeous fuchsia is one and the other is round and gold in color.

Our first stop was to Dingle Cristal. The master craftsman,Sean, worked more than ten years to achieve that rank. He began at Waterford Crystal and then set up the crystal engraving in Dingle.  He demonstrated the process on a bowl with a specialized wheel and water. We learned there are 8 design of course,they are stunningly beautiful. 

Dennis, our coach driver, drove us further west on the Dingle Peninsula. On it we visited the visitor center of the Blasket Islands. There we learned of daily life of the people descended from the Vikings. There was a minimum of arable land on the six islands. The last residents left in 1953. Thr views of the six islands from its viewing point were clear and wide and beautiful. 

The Dingle Peninsula has many scattered Villages lots of rocky hills as well as green fields bordered by rock covered fences bordered by vegetation.

Backing Dingle townwe had a quickly lunch and thenmet Michael, our guide, for a walk around the town. Crossing narrow streets in the rain and walking narrow footpaths (sidewalks) among many tourists was a challenge. Nevertheless it gave us ideas for planning our next day, a free day. 

We had time to visit shops to stay dry and to share supper with a couple tourer friends. We visited a bookstore and looked at many regarding Dingle and Ireland.

Early  evening we attended a concert of Irish folk music.  Guitar,vocal, pennywhistle, and concertina. It was soft music and toetapping reels. It took efforts to locate a taxi to bring us back to our B&B. 

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