OK- all you need today is your sunglasses, shorts and suncream – we’re going for a hike along another back road, and everything on this walk should fill your heart with joy. The blackthorn bushes are flowering wildly, their tiny white flowers competing with the yellow gorse bushes for domination – the fields are full of lambs shaking their tails, every hedge and ditch is alive with colour and birdsong. I saw a few butterflies today, little fellows who were too shy for the camera, but they’ll get braver and bolder as April progresses. Off we go… Enjoy!
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Popping down the street today to take you around one of the most beautiful places in Bundoran- and one of the most laudable projects I’ve witnessed. In April 2006 Sr. Assumpta Butler and Sr. Mary Kate Hagan began a small ecological initiative on 2 acres of land, with the aim of of educating and promoting among the local people organic growing as a more sustainable and wholesome way of relating to the earth. It is now a wonderful hub of sustainable activities, used by local people, schools, groups for education, therapy and sustenance. Enjoy!
Hello everyone. Your intrepid (within 2KM) adventurer was up early this morning, to catch a low tide and a spectacular sunrise, and some Brent geese having a dawn paddle. The moon remained as long as she could, dangling over the perfect surf like a Chinese lantern. I started at Tullan Strand, around by a glowing Rougey pathway, around to Rougey rock and Bundoran’s Main Beach. No photos can do it justice, so please start planning to come and witness this yourself! Beautiful, all year round. Enjoy
It was quite an overcast Easter Saturday morning as I set out, with the intention of exploring some of the forgotten by-roads around the main motorway into Bundoran. I was prompted to think about Patrick Kavanagh’s Iniskeen Road poem, where he declares himself King of ‘Banks and Stones and every blooming thing’ – because as I wandered around, the sheer vibrancy of plant-life was revealing itself everywhere, in every ditch, nook and cranny. Join me now, for a glimpse of extraordinary beauty in the ordinary back roads of our little corner of Donegal. Enjoy!
Hello everyone- I hope you are all doing well. Thanks to everyone who emailed and commented on the photographs. We know we are so blessed to have this wonderful scenery on our doorstep, and we want you to look forward to joining us somewhere down the line, and enjoy it with us. It isn’t going anywhere- Donegal is beautiful, all year round, and as soon as we can get up and running again, you can join us on these walks for real. Last night, I went down to the beach, just as the sun was setting. A couple of surfers were just leaving the water as I arrived- the waves were perfect, their faces glowing in the pink light, from the joy of being at one with the ocean. Tiny birds were skating in and out on the ebbing tide and the lights of Bundoran began twinkling. By the time I reached the estuary, Ballyshannon was lit up like Vegas 🙂 and I was guided home in the darkness by Venus and the lights along the Rougey walk. Enjoy, Stay safe x
John’s turn to take you on your daily walk today! He’s bringing you to the beautiful little village of Mullaghmore, County Sligo, for a ramble from the harbour, around by Classiebawn Castle, and back to the cutest little lamb you’re going to see today. Stay safe, enjoy!
It was misty and ethereal down by the cliff face around Rougey this morning. Plenty of swell bashing up against the gnarled black rock, shooting salt-spray into the air. The huge stone slabs, pock-marked by relentless wave hustle, are interrupted here and there with lumps of sea grasses, Danish scurvy-grass and budding sea-thrift. Enjoy!
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