We started our day and began packing our luggage. Overnight there was a thunderstorm that had an impact for some electricity in our region but luckily not so bad and we just heard the news later in the visitor center and it didn’t has an impact on us and damaged nothing. 🙂
So we left our pod with sea view behind us, drove by the tidal pool and were sure that we’ll miss this place already. Martin and Beate wanted to buy 4 cans of Irish beer in the shop… But at the checkout the staff said, we have to wait for 15 minutes. And this was no joke, in Ireland alcohol is ony allowed to be sold in a shop from 10:30 to 22:00. Our next destination were the Céide fields, an Stone Age Monument with visitor center. I felt a little ill so I just stayed in the car and took a 2 hour nap and Martin, Beate and Laura explored the visitor center and learned a lot about the life of the people in the stone age there who were farmers and lived there with their animals. That’s how they discribe the monument on their website:
„The stone-walled fields, extending over hundreds of hectares, are the oldest known globally, dating back almost 6,000 years. They are covered by a natural blanket bog with its own unique vegetation and wildlife.“
I felt better soon and continued the open air tour with the others and they told me about the Stone Age lifes of people. It was really interesting and also a lucky coincidence because nature (torf) has protected the stone walls from about 5500 years ago so long that we are able to look at them in the 21th century ✨
After we saw a film and within a recreation of the landscape and how it looked a long time ago in the 360° studio we had our lunch in the picknick area with a nice view with the sea. 🌊
Because one of the employers of the visitor center has recommended another attraction to, we drove another 20 min drive to Down Patrick’s Head, a cliff with a sea-stack that is called Dún Briste, which means „broken fort“.
It was an amazing view and we saw again some sea birds.
Local legend says that when a chief of pagans (german: Heidenhäuptling) refused to convert to Christianity, St Patrick struck the ground with his crozier, splitting a chunk of the headland off into the ocean, with the chieftain on top! (Story from the website www.ireland.com)
We drove to Crossmolina near the Lough Conn and checked into our hotel with big rooms and a lot of space for each of us compared to the other accomandations. In the evening we walked around and ate in the Hinys Pub a delicious dinner! 🍴
We walked around, looked at the „green castle“ of Crossmolina and the St. Marys Church. At our hotel we sat again in the restaurant and drank something and Laura ordered an apple crumble with vanilla ice cream.
The end of the day was for Laura and me a call with a friend from Germany 🙂 ✨
