Stairway..

This is the view from the stairway of Kieran's top floor. He is an Irish photographer I contacted before my trip. We met and took at trip to Giant's Causeway yesterday, and he was kind enough to let me stay at his place in his son's bedroom, which was empty since he moved out.

Note the green light at the bottom. There's a stained glass window that casts wonderful light downstairs.

"You have two choices for dinner." He said, "We can go to an Indian restaurant, or we can go to the grocery store and pick something up. I'll cook it, with vegetables and chips (which are fries)."

"Grocery store, and thank you," I decided.

I found a chicken-in-pie crust frozen dinner. We ate it with peas, broccoli, cauliflower, and fries. It was the best dinner I've had in a long time.


I saw Giant's Causeway. I touched one of the stones to accept the reality of being here, on the northern coast of Ireland, with these hexagonal-shaped stones gathered before me, going, "why dontcha take our picture?" haha.


Back to food though, we ate dinner and watched the soccer (football) match and then he showed me a documentary about Tom Crean, an Irish explorer who ventured to Antarctica to discover the South Pole. He never did get there, but on one trip his ship was trapped in the ice and his men left the boat. The entire ice "island" broke off and floated -literally floated- away. They lived on that ice chunk for a while until it made its way to a real island. They took rowboats with them and sent off with four men out of twenty four to Georgia.

The journey continues and it was an amazing tale. I won't spoil the ending. but at one point they climbed a mountain and on the other side was a sheer cliff. They were almost out of food so they had no choice. They slid down the crevice without knowing what was at the bottom. A maneuver of pure risk, and I won't spoil the ending. :)