Our first Burren walk took us to St Mac Duach’s Chapel under Eagle Rock and gave us a basic taste of the terrain and some of the flowers. In addition to some primulas and Spring Gentian we also saw our first wild orchid. Stopped at Cassidy’s for a Guinness on the way home and sat in the sun wondering what the workers were doing!
When we got home on Monday afternoon we found that Lucy (the horse) and Molly (the donkey) had finally arrived and were getting stuck into the long grass. After two days they now come over to say hello and are happy to eat apples from the hand – now need a bigger stock of apples!
Forgot to plug the Farmers Market in Ennis on Friday Morning. A limited selection of stalls but everything we bought was from the producers and great quality. They all seemed to be incomers – a couple of English, one American and an Austrian (or German) I think – but we are planning to go back again this week – the sausage lady had just slaughtered a couple of pigs and promised a greater selection of meat this week. Would definitely recommend it to anyone who is the area on a Friday.
Also bought our first garden tools for a long time and did more gardening in two days than I have done in the past 12 years - and that was only the flower borders - still have to start on the veg patch!
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