Written by Ruben
This last week has been awesome. We saw a guy named Joe Hogan weaving baskets, he said he had been doing it for about 37 years!
I have just finished listening to Bill’s, Neither Here Nor There, he definitely had some good travels. I have started listening to Lord of the Flies in addition to reading, I am Blade as well the book we are reading together as a family called Bog Child. Bog Child takes place in Ireland.
We went to the Museum of Country Life in Castlebar. A fun fact that I learned is that sometimes when one of the livestock gets sick the farmers take the leg of that animal and put it in their thatched roofs to act as a vaccine for their family.
We visited Pigeon Hole Cave in Cong, Mia, dad and I went down and explored the darkness with one dim headlamp(we did not make it very far).
We had an awesome view looking out on the ocean from the Cliffs Of Mohr. On the cliffs there have been many fatal accidents from sudden gusts of wind knocking people off the edges. I also learned in the museum about the changing earth and the moving continents for instance Ireland will keep drifting North and Dublin and Belfast will eventually be under water.
Today we went around the Dingle Peninsula Loop and we went to some very windy beaches. Mia dad and I got some quartz crystals out of a cliff. We also found some “baby aliens” on the beach. We are unsure what these creatures are and I will have to do some research. On the walk up from the beach we saw a single sheep up on the side of a cliff, he looked like he was stuck! (he also had some good colours on him).
Yours truly,
Ruben
Written by Mia
I have been reading some interesting books lately, I have just started listening to the story of Ann Frank on my Kindle because we are going to visit here house in Amsterdam. we have been listening to Bill Brison Neither here Nor There, I am also reading the blazer girls the vanishing violin about kid detectives at there school. My dad is reading Bog Child, it is about a boy during the “Troubles”, who finds a body of a girl in the Bog from the iron age.
We went on a five hour hike following the river through the valley and we found an old shepherds hut high in the valley and we stoped to check it out, then we kept on going to the top of the mountain.
We made our way on a ferry to Inishbofin, where we cycled around enjoying the scenery.
We went by a basket weavers he does very nice work his name is Joe Hogan and he has a nice website when we got there he was weaving a baby basket.
We stopped in Castlebar and went to the museum of country life where we lerned some interesting things like, if peoples live stock were sick then they would put a hoof of the animal in the thatching of the ceiling as an early vacination. Also when people made there lobster pots sometimes they made them out out of heather but most of the time they made them out of willow but in different areas they made them differently.
We went on a walk to the pigeon hole cave where there is an under water river and we got to explore a little bit with a dim head lamp. Ruben and I also got to crawl around and explore an cool cave called priests cave.
We drove to Kong where there is an abbey called Cong abbey and saw a monks fishing house. We had found some walking sticks and when we got back we carved them. The next day we decided to get some exercise so we went for a run with dad then Ruben showed us some ki su do and then dad and I stretched.
We got to see a tomb pul na brone which is made out of big slabs of lime stone. They 30 bodies buried in the tomb.
We went to Doolin and saw the Cliffs of Moher and went to an exhibit which showed how the Cliffs of moher were made that night we went to a bar where there were musicians there was a banjo player, a bouzaki which is like a mandelin with a long neck, and two people playing the uilleuann pipes, we got their CD, we stayed in a hostel that night.
We made our way to Dingle and today we did a drive called the Dingle loop. We saw Bee hive huts a small group of huts made of stone surrounded by a wall to keep the cattle in and the hustlers out. We went to a few beeches on which we found Cortz crystals embedded in the rocks, many fossils in stones and sinkholes also on one beach we found a drift net and so we dragged it back to the car and took it back to the docks and dumped it with another pile of netting.
That was high lights of the week.
Sincerely,
MIA
