Ten Days of Easter

A four hour trip from Dublin had herself pulling onto the driveway of Carrigeen on the Tuesday before Easter. A full 72 hours before himself flew in from Stansted. I was taking a short break from unloading the car when a knock on the kitchen door from Eamon who would turn out to be my new best friend. Hi says Eamon, I used to cut the grass her for Mrs Gould and generally keep the garden tidy. Now I don't know if you are a gardener yourself says Eamon (clearly not knowing me) but if you did need any help I might be the man for you". Well says I, you are the man for me, how can we agree to make this happen. I know friends say I am a fast worker and I suppose this proves the point, but by 4pm he was cutting the grass and clearing the borders.

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It's hard to describe how brilliant the weather has been, 10 straight days and no rain = unheard of in Kerry. But we can testify that it does happen. On the left is a view of the next village along called Ballydavid.
In Irish the meaning of the name is town of foreigners which is interesting because it's mainly locals who live there.  There are two bars/pubs both with excellent reputations and one with views over the harbour and bay although Tigh TP's is probably the best known: https://www.facebook.com/Tigh-TP-Baile-na-nGall-354669563727/
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Good Friday in Ireland is one of two "odd" days in the year in Ireland in that unless you are a private members club, or serving food you cannot sell alcohol.
In supermarkets the easiest way to stop the sale of drink is to cordon off the section. Now most "ordinary" supermarkets would put string across or barriers but oh not no in the wonderful Supervalu in Dingle. They build a wall of toilet rolls and kitchen rolls to prevent access & of course offer for sale these items if one is in need of either.

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All was well with the world by Easter Saturday and a lovely birthday was had for TS in the Blue Zone pizza restaurant in Dingle. Sunday saw the arrival of our first formal guests, ie they are staying longer than one night. MC & JC arrived from Dublin and after a quick tour of the house and a bite to eat we headed for one of the four pubs in Ballyferriter.
Our aim was to arrive in time to hear Mike and his ensemble play a few tunes whilst having a few drinks but it turned out we  missed them by about 1/2 hour.
So we headed to check out the next pub which was full so onto the third pub, Sayers where we found seats and settled in. We had only taken one sip from our drinks when up popped some young musicians. When I say young I mean young, the eldest being 15 and the youngest of the four was we later found out 12. For the next two hours we were treated to the most wonderful Irish music by the four lads. Their rewards each hour was 2L of 7Up + 4 packets of Tayto crisps.
We did laugh thinking this just would never happen in England, someone would be worried about the child protection squad etc.
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The following day we took our visitors on a tour of the peninsula and showing them the sights. It was a long day and by 9pm only half the group were keen on the pub. Thankfully that was the more dominate half because 10 minutes later we are settled again in Sears. And preceded to contribute to the week's spend in the bar just on that one night or at least that's what it felt like the following morning. We are now on first name terms with the barman and it's a super place to spend a few hours. http://www.searspub.com/

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