A vibrant town, Killarney is busy with tourists. Coffee shops, craft shops, restaurants, pubs, even the bookshops are crowded. People promenade the streets in the evenings. Mostly it seemed, reviewing places to eat and drink. The National Park a hiker’s paradise, as Molly Darcys nearby pub is. A great meal with wine never cost an arm and a leg. The Fairview Guest House, where we had booked B & B has a superb restaurant. With so much deliciously tempting cuisine on offer, a small breakfast became essential. The Dingle, The Ring of Kerry, Innisfallan, Valentia Island, Bantry Bay, Galway Bay, we were there.
The hire car climbed the mountains with ease, skipped along the narrow winding roads. The driver was pretty good as well. We went to Slea Head in the Dingle, where beach location shots for Ryan's Daughter were made. My memory of the beach scenes, are as fresh as when I saw the film in London...way back. The audience at the Leicester Square Cinema, were on the edge of their seats during the love scenes. Not from what we actually saw, more what we had imagined. I had never heard an audience sigh so deeply with unison, as we did on that night.
The red rider in the mist an unexpected occurrence, on what had been a long empty beach. One of those lovely surprises, when I had the camera poised like a telescope. Then the pink rider came trotting along. Where they had come from a mystery. Had they been in a cave, sheltered from the whipping rain?
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