4,000 Years of History

It's time to engage your agile minds again, as we're heading back to Ireland. You can tell what a great week it was, as the photos are still coming. There were just so many interesting places to visit and photograph even in the middle of winter. We simply must go back in the summer, when everything will look even more splendid and, more importantly, the water will be a better temperature for surfing!

Anyway, the day after the Giant's Causeway visit, in the interests if variety, we decided it was time to explore inland again. And so we spent the day in the Ballypatrick Forest.


This was a good time of year to walk in the forest as we had it all to ourselves as the forest drive (for cars) wasn't open. This meant we could sit quietly and enjoy the birdsong and commune with nature with no disturbances, other than the chatting of our minders who had linked up with friends and were catching up on all their news.

Our pointy perch wasn't too comfortable, as you will appreciate from our picture, and this, along with the background chatting, meant that although it was a lovely spot, it wasn't the best place for a bit of shut-eye (Patrick had kept us up late enjoying Guinness and good craic, so we were feeling a little tired).

Yorkie was the first to notice that this wouldn't have been a good place to sleep anyway, as it was a burial ground and we might have been taken for dead and accidentally buried if we'd been found. In fact, as we went to investigate, we found this was no ordinary burial ground. It was a 4,000 year old burial ground, dating back to the megallthic (note not megalithic) period. No, we haven't suddenly become culture vultures to know all this, we simply read the sign that was kindly provided.


Mind you, looking at the sign, we reckon it had probably been around a few thousand years. We took great care not to get any of that green slime on our fur. The risks we take in the interest of keeping our blog readers entertained!

Lots of love, George & Yorkie xxx