Into the West & Far East
Oasis in Mayo - Nestled at the foot of the Mweelrea Mountains the Delphi Mountain Lodge Spa offers a unique and luxurious escape from the everyday.
Oasis in Mayo - Nestled at the foot of the Mweelrea Mountains the Delphi Mountain Lodge Spa offers a unique and luxurious escape from the everyday. By Kelly Candaele, Contributor
On a drizzly morning in early summer what the Irish refer to as a “soft day” I’m doing something that has become rather commonplace during my numerous travels to Ireland. I’m talking about local history with two men who live in County Mayo and work at the Delphi Mountain Lodge and Spa. We stand at the entrance to a business that was constructed with the entrepreneurial idea that what the Celtic Tiger needed after a decade of scrambling to increase its productivity, efficiency and therefore its living standard was a good pampering of the body and spirit. We are a few feet from a wonderful turf fire burning in a round s