Monday, 3rd
September, 2012
Brandon Bay, Kerry
After a night crossing from
Pembroke to Rosslare we are heading for the Dingle Peninsula.
Driving cross country we look
for a place to have breakfast. After passing several closed establishments we
finally come across those all too familiar towering red letters – TESCO
Driving through the Irish
landscape reminds me of New
Zealand, the sun is shining, the vegetation
is a lush green and in the distance mountains loom.
My preconceptions of Ireland
so far have been, as de Botton posits different. I imagined very little roads much like Scotland, a hilly mountainous
terrain and what roads there were to be, windy. The drive has been good. Barren
was a word someone had used. They couldn’t have been further from the truth.
The odd industrial factory rears its ugly head and with it memories of northern
Spain
grow. For the most part it’s very much like driving at home. The foliage is
similar; the only difference is the villages seem much prettier than many in
Devon and Cornwall.
On arriving in Brandon Bay aspirations of 3’ clean empty waves
are still but a dream, at least for today.
Bibliography
C Cotton, 2007 The Photograph As Contemporary Art Thames
& Hudson: London
De Botton, 2003 The Art of Travel Penguin: London
E Newby, 1995 A Book of Travellers’ Tales Pan Books
Ltd: London
Sontag, 2002 On Photography Penguin Group: London
Tolstoy L, 1969 What Is
Art? And Essays on Art London: University Press Oxford
Copyright Mark King 2012
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