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Arkady, that’s cool. Do you still have family there? Do you visit often?
Lech – ok I found it on Itunes so I will check it out
I gotta run folks and focus on my never-ending job search!
“The English countryside is small lanes, tea shops and vicars and right of way footpaths going over even the most aristocratic estates.”
All the basis of most of the Monty Python skits.
My father was born in Kilkenny.
“One of the dumbest things I’ve ever done.”
What are you talking about? Kilkenny was one of the highlights of my trip! Castles, pubs, old churches and greenery everywhere. It’s gorgeous.
But two more things that stood out to me.
1) The roads were so narrow that I practically had to pull my tiny rental car over into the trees when an oncoming car approached. Yet somehow the large tourist bus drivers could fly past other traffic with ease.
2) Directions were very difficult! When I got lost driving, which happened many times, and asked someone about how to find Route so and so on my map, nobody seemed to know the names of the streets. They would all give directions by telling you things, like “go straight ahead to the second church, drive 10km until you see the big tree on your right, and then veer left for 45kms and you’re there”.
I want to say the countrside here is beautiful and wild too, don’t get me wrong. I’ve seen some spectacular vistas out here.
Benson – interesting, I didn’t know that.
Perhaps it helped both sides come together a bit.
England and gun ownership – the countryside in England feels a lot safer that the countryside here in the North East. Guns are mainly used by farmers to shoot wood pigeons. The English countryside is small lanes, tea shops and vicars and right of way footpaths going over even the most aristocratic estates. The countryside out here is often iffy mobile homes with gangs of barking dogs, weird people with guns, and no trespassing signs up the wazoo. Very different feel to it.
Legion – yes, lives of the saints very interesting. I’m not Catholic but went to parochial school until 3rd grade, so I have a lingering fondness for that stuff.