Travel: Cruising the Shannon, living the boating dream
A cruise on the Shannon is the perfect way to escape the shackles of lockdown, says a sun-bronzed and happy Geoff Hill Geoff Hill Ireland - as much history as you can handle. Slight bit of DIY needed, mind you.
RAIN - in Ireland, in July. Who would have thought it?
Anyway, unlike the usual rain in Ireland, which is usually interrupted by showers, this was over in an hour as we set out from Portumna on the edge of Co Galway.
And after a year of lockdown hiding under the stairs with only the cat for company, even thunder, lightning and a plague of locusts couldn t have dampened our feeling of freedom.