Our Easter Saturday treat was witnessing this beautiful rainbow descent upon ancient Acha Dá Eo, ‘The field of the two yew trees’. This place, now known as Aghadoe, is very old and dates back to pre-Christian Ireland. The Aghadoe church and cemetery as we see it now is a relatively young 866 years old. From […]
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I wonder when that last call for drinks really was? I suspect that back in its heyday there never was a last call, just the ushering of patrons out the door. Back in 1873 the discovery of gold here transformed an inhospitable region of the South Australian outback into a nearly 500 strong community resulting […]
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Air Conditioned Road House Motel Accommodation * Souvenirs * Meals * Takeaways * Drinks *Ice * Car Accessories * Tyres * Tubes * Batteries … but not for a long time
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Fort Glanville, tucked away in a little coastal corner of Adelaide, is like a preserved snapshot of South Australia’s 19th century colonial heritage. Built in 1880, you can still see the original armaments, intact, and reportedly still operational. Never actually used, its very reason for being is a story unto itself. I have driven past […]
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Grey skies and green mountains might typify the beautiful country Ireland is but this place, Delphi Doolough, hides a grim story of human tragedy behind its stark beauty. In March of 1849 during the Irish Potato famine Irish people were instructed to present themselves to officials in the town of Louisburgh to have their claims […]
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