Guest Post # 4 – Connemara
Thursday, August 26th, 2010The region Connemara begins just north of the Burren, on the other side of Galway Bay. But when we told our Ballyvaughan hosts that we were heading to Maam Cross, they talked about it as if it were one of the last frontiers on mother earth. Our original plan had been to lodge with a certain Philomena, whose B&B in the Maam Valley came highly recommended – but when Chevy called in April, Philomena informed him that a return to university had forced her to suspend business until the cessation of the exam period. The nearby B&B that she, in turn, recommended was just down the road from the famous (in these parts, at least) Keane’s Bar. The proprietors at Leckavrea Lodge, however, were not home (day trip to Ballyvaughan?) when we called in around midday, so we continued north to the mouth of Killary Harbour, from where we began our afternoon walk.