CTVR Annual Meeting

This week there was the annual CTVR plenary meeting in Ennis. Meeting - a great alternative to working...
The first day of the meeting consisted of the check in to the hotel, some greeting words and a couple of informative presentation. Of course there had to be a great finish to the day, so we went to the medieval dinner at Bunratty Castle. To get a good start the group first entered the Pub to warm up.

After that the banquet started accompanied with Simpsons Style medieval entertainment.

The most Simpsons thing was the quite funny fact, that the medieval lady that served our table had a strong polish accent.

Of course everything had to be authentic, so there were no forks...

As a special extra I have uploaded a small excerpt for you as a video:

Election

And now for something completely different: It is election time in Ireland. Of course I do not want to deprive you of the lovely cast of characters that is courting for the grace of the voters.
I've picked the 3 best posters for you. The funny thing is, that they are all in the same party, and Berties Team. I will hand in Berties Pic later.

Number 3: Great balancing act between juvenile erotic and adult seriousness. I especially like the Haircut and the decent make up.


Number 2: Nomen est Omen. With that name you don´t have to be afraid of anything.

My Number 1: Here everything is a hit. The perfect optical blend of haircut, overwhelming mustache, yearning look into the distance, in combination with the striking name. Try saying it, there's music to it: Willie O'Dea

Road Trip

Last weekend we went on a small road trip through the Burren and back along the beach. I took many pictures and it was really hard to decide, which to publish. The first thing that we saw was a megalithic tomb in the Burren. To be honest, the picture conceals that it is very close to the road. But still it is impressive to see something that is about 4000 years old and still standing.

After that we drove along the coast. We even went down to the water on that coarse-grained saand beach. But the water was extremely cold.

From that point we went on a small hike up the hills on the left.

The ground there is very rocky (Irish: Boireann-great rock). The walls on many of my pictures are something typicl for Ireland: In the 19th century there was a lot of unemployment in Ireland. So the politicians decided on an employment-creation measure...

The hills that you can see on the other side of the bay are Connemara.

The road continued along those cliffs, that turn into the cliffs of Moher further south.
Since we were already in the vicinity of the cliffs of Moher we decided to stop there for sunset. It turned out to be a good decision, since the official facilities were closed at this time. So we could even walk to the restricted areas. :)

Interested, what lies behind the edge on the picture above? Here it is: About 200 meters. This is a sight, that makes you feel really small.