What do President Michael D. Higgins, The Traitors and SpongeBob SquarePants have in common? You can see them all at the Easkey Scarecrow Festival in Sligo! It's such a wonderful event, which encourages the people of Easkey, and the surrounding areas, to unleash their creative side, and come up with something wonderful. It's well worth... Continue Reading →
It’s the last Sunday in October and the clocks went back in the early hours of this morning, so we’ll have a few days of wondering what the time is in old time and new time! I slept really well last night which is nothing short of a miracle after all the nights of book... Continue Reading →
I was in Tubbercurry on Friday and instead of taking the normal main road home I decided to take a bit of a detour. I headed up towards Lough Easkey - this is one of my favourite places in Sligo. If you haven't been there yet it's well worth a visit. Take the road out... Continue Reading →
It's been a fantastic few days here in Ireland. It's just the most beautiful place in the world when the sun is shining. In the last week we've been to four beaches in Co. Sligo and there were still so many more we could have visited. Sligo is right on the Wild Atlantic Way so... Continue Reading →
The folks of Easkey have been busy this week with their Annual Scarecrow Festival. It's really worth a visit, their is so much work that goes into the scarecrows and of course Easkey is a beautiful place to visit anyway...do check out the coast road and Easkey Castle too. Willy Wonka was in pride of... Continue Reading →
Yesterday I went to Ballina for the day. I had to go to a couple of shops there so I tied it in with a visit to Belleek Woods. It's a beautiful forest just outside Ballina town and along the banks of the River Moy. I was intending to look for squirrels but I'd timed... Continue Reading →
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