Today Aidan and Soren turn 4. We thought about them throughout the day.
This was the day we went out to the Dingle Peninsula. Our first stop was at the Blennerville Windmill. The interesting thing was the info centre. Inside there was lot of information about the immigration to Canada of the Irish during the famine. We have heard lots about the immigration to the USA but very little about immigration to Canada. Sadly Canada lost the most immigrates due to cholera of all the countries. We had heard about this on our trip to Quebec City. A number of ships left from Blennerville for the Americas
The windmill was restored with the help of young people learning about the trades. A wonderful job has been done. Charles climbed to the top and saw the inner workings. They are able to use the mill to demonstrate how it worked. This is done on special occasions.
We did a side trip that turned out to be uninteresting. We took the road to Connor Pass. As we started up the road there were warning signs about size, weight and length requirements. The road is to be only used by cars. On the last stop before the pass, there was a sign saying "If you are in an overweight or over length vehicle TURN BACK NOW". We weren't really sure what the road would be like. This was the last chance to turn back. The road became quite narrow with steep cliffs down on one side and up on the other side of the car. The road still went both ways so passing was interesting. The views made it all worthwhile.
The pass leads to the town of Dingle. Now we wished we had not done the side trip earlier. We would have liked to spend time looking around this quaint town. Instead we continued on toward Slea Head. We stopped at Dunberg Fort. Then went on to the Beehive Huts. There are some 50 beehive hut communities in this area. These hut are ancient living area. They seem to be enclosed in a ring fort. Most of these sites are not open to the public due to vandalism.
Soon it was time to head back to Tralee and pick up the laundry.
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