Inis Mór: let the heart go back there...

...and it will release...

Play the music,....and meanwhile see the photos...

This is Ireland....

Inis Mór (or Inishmore) is the largest of the Aran Islands, with a population of about 840 inhabitants.

Inis Oìrr: its dolphin and its beach

Inis Oírr is one of the Aran Islands.

If you want to escape from civilization and get lost amongst green fields, ancient ruins, animals, clear beaches, etc...so go to the Aran Islands.

They are three: the Inishmór (the biggest), the Inishmaan (the middle one) and Inis Oírr (the smallest).

I have been cycling ;)  Inishmór and Inis Oírr (cycling is the best way to visit the islands, and you can rent the bike for 12-15 euros directly when you arrive on the Islands).

I will come back to these two islands with other posts...

Here I want to tell you about its dolphin...

Several beaches in Ireland have their own dolphin who became a kind of mascot..the most famous is for sure Fungie in Dingle (well, I will also tell you soon or later how I woke up at 6 am to try to swim with him in an almost zero degree water)...

And Inis Oírr has Dusty, Sandy, Clet..well I did not know this otherwise I would have been gone prepared instead of taking out running shoes and rolling up the jeans for quickly enter in the water and taking the pictures...

Now probably you are also thinking the same of what I thought when I saw the girls swimming without the swimming suit...Irish mysteries...and Irish strength! ;)..or just being young! :)

This father was fantastic...he chased the dolphin for 15 minutes for bringing the daughter as close as possible...

And this is the amazing multicolour beach of Inis Oírr... 

 

and the small island seen from the boat... 

More info on Inis Oírr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inisheer
http://discoverinisoirr.com/

And on the dolphin :) http://www.dustythedolphin.com/

PS: nice photos (;))..nice to see children with dolphins, swimming with a dolphin is my dream..BUT NOTE that dolphins in the sea are wild dolphins, and attention should always be placed for our and their safety!

 

The Zeltik Festival in Dudelange (Luxembourg)

Well..there is people that think that in this small country (yes,...Luxembourg is a city, but Luxembourg is also a country!  ;))..nothing happens...

I live and work here and I can tell you....nothing is missing here (we had also Ramazzotti,..what else? ;))

One event that I could have not missed was the Zeltik Festival in Dudelange, on the 12 of March 2016....

This event takes place every year...but this was the first year I heard of it and went.

It is a kind of celebration of the Celtic music...with artists from all over Europe...

All started with the BEOGA...

Beoga (photos taken with a compact camera)

Then they were followed by the DANCEPERADOS OF IRELAND, who sing the stories of the Irish travellers and the music they were bringing with them. 

 

 

 


Danceperados of Ireland
(photos taken with a compact camera)

Danceperados of Ireland
(photos taken with a compact camera)

And at the end the star that everyone was waiting (except me! ;) ..as it was the first time I had heard about him -_-) was CARLOS NUNEZ...which made a kind of show.....
 

Carlos Nunez
(photos taken with a compact camera)



 

Carlos Nunez
(photos taken with a compact camera)

The evening was very nice...full of people, nice atmosphere...

People enjoyed a lot Carlos Nunez. Well, not me. He presented how the Celtic music is played all around the World...and this is could be also interesting.

What I did not really like at all is that he transformed the Celtic music in a show...when the Celtic music is something much more intimate. It is something that is song for the pleasure to stay together and to express its own feeling, and cannot be transformed in a kind-of Madonna concert.

The skill of the singer/player stays in the ability of let you feel emotionally involved, no matter if you are listening him/her in a pub in a small village or in a stadium with hundreds of people...

And when I say emotionally involved, I mean the ability to arrive to your heart and not to stop to your ears. And no matter how much loudly Nunez was singing/playing...his music just stopped there..

Now I feel a little a fish out of water, as so much people loved him..well the music is great as everyone can have his/her taste...and maybe not everyone spent three weeks and half in Ireland! ;)

Anyway, back to Ireland, this is a small piece of the Danceperados of Ireland!!

Enjoy!! :)


 

 



http://www.zeltik.lu/

Do not underestimate the tiredness of a full solo trip!! ;)

This was after two full days in Doolin, first day walking more than 20 km over the Cliff of Moher and the second bicycling all around Inishmore (one of the Aran Islands)...and on the (more or less) 15th day of trip...

I was going to a pub (review will follow soon! ;))...and after 1 km from the B&B I realised this "small" oversight...

Did I go to the pub in those conditions or went back for changing???

Ai posteri l'ardua sentenza! ;)