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The Scenic Route #SoCS

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We spent a couple of nights last week in Carna in Connemara. Oh…to be away! It was Heaven. And the best thing was, we booked into a pet friendly hotel so we got to bring our dog Cotton.

It was meant to be a two hour drive to Carna Bay Hotel, but Stephano took the scenic route. Which I didn’t mind until our satnav, Bridie, announced after two and a half hours, ‘You have reached your destination’.

‘Excuse me Bridie…what did you say?’ I demanded.

We were in a beautiful place indeed, but I couldn’t see a hotel, or a shop, or people. I could see the sea, stone walls, and loads of graves!

‘Stephano, where did you tell Bridie to take us?’

‘Carna.’

‘Not the hotel?’ I scowled. The dog was hungry and so was I.

‘No, I put in Carna, just to see where she’d bring us.’

JUST TO SEE WHERE SHE’D BRING US!

So I instructed Bridie to take us to Carna Bay Hotel. She obeyed and got us there a half an hour later.

Even though the drive was three hours long, it really didn’t matter because the scenery was idyllic. The West of Ireland truly is a beautiful place to be.

The array of Rhododendron in Connemara is so beautiful to see. Unfortunately, they are very invasive and are a threat to the ecosystem. The government has allocated €500,000 funding to help eradicate the Rhododendron across 300 hectares of bog and heathland within Connemara’s National Park. Such a shame that something so beautiful can be so toxic.

Today’s post was in response to Linda G Hill’s Stream of Conscious Saturday – #SoCS. Today’s prompt is ‘drive.’