I enjoyed this hourney in Dublin: so many interesting natural places , the Bay of Dublin, the Grand Canal and the Liffey river, the Phoenix Park, the Sligo Bay and the island of Coney, the seaside at Courtown, the port of Howth.
Some words about the Bay of Dublin : a place where Yves Michalet-Paccard and his friends enjoy freestyle swimming (in quite fresh water) and participate in swimming races.
The bay of Dublin has inspired Carol Callaghan who enjoys the differents colours of the sea and the sky: she shows her paintings in the market of Dún Laoghaire near the sea.
Then I appreciate the Phoenix Park; a 707 hectares park (twice the area of Central Park in New York: the visitors can see a herd of 400 fallow deer, there is a forest and Lucy O'Hagan has a Forest School: she shows to young boys and girls how to discover and to enjoy th forest ( theese forest school are very common in Scandinavia). Besides the Dublin zoo is inside the park.
In Dublin there are about 1.000 pubs: places where people enjoy drinking beer but also meeting friends or knowing new friends): Tom Mulligan , a pub owner plays Irish folk music with the membres of his family (flute, bagpipe, violin.
Patrick organizes darts competitions in his pub and there is a great ambiance in the pub.
In Dublin there is also the European Bartnder School managed by Richard Linden who explains that the bartender mut know the new trends ( the preparation of cocktails ).
After the pubs the Celtic sports: Anna and her mother play camogie, a stick-and-ball team sport: now about 100.000 Irish women practice this sport. The Irish men practice the hurling (also a stick-and-ball team sport.
In the peninsula of Howth we meet Gerard Carty who fishes lobsters: he has about 30 lobster traps, the small lobsters are given back to sea and the great lobsters are sold to Sean Doran, a lobster buyer and also restaurant owner where the clients can eat fresh lobsters. In a bar we meet Mark Bailey, a fisherman who works on great fishing boats (which stay for months in the sea).
I appreciate also the zoom about the Sligo Bay and the travel at low tide to the Coney island:there few inhabitants in this island, Michael Mc Gowan is famer. Not far away Prannie, an Irish woman is looking for algae and explains that her family eats every day algae.
We discover a new sport calkled coasteering (crossing the intertidal zone on foot or by swimming): somtimes they jump into the water and discover caves).
I enjoyed very much the encounters of Sophie with Michael Byrne (the kayaking on the Liffey river, the song of Molly Malone, the Wall of Fame, the Trinity College library and the beer at "The Church"), with Carina and Alex Conyngham at Slane (the farm, the yurt, the castle, the ruins of Slane Hill and the battle field of the Boyne),with Melanie Croce at Courtown Seal Rescue center (the feeding of the seals and later the release of the seals at the seaside), with Elizabeth O'Kane, the sculptress and painter (the restored buildings of the docks, the bronze portraits) and wih Joey Comerford, the choreographer and dance professor ( the childhood of Joey in Belfast, the Halloween parade, the Dance academy and the spectacle at "Johnnie Fox's bar): very nice encounters with very king Irish men and women.