Newry

Ciao! I spent the lovely midweek in the bordertown of Newry at a fellow volunteer's home. Northern Ireland experienced "North Pole-like" (so said the local news) conditions on Tuesday night, which I found somewhat hilarious...
Certainly not the part where a large number of motorists got stranded for the night in town halls because they couldn't drive through the snow, or the part where Corrymeela lost power for about a day. Just the mere fact that in Minnesota the same conditions might be labeled a "dusting". Sigh. The world has no idea what sort of place we hail from, Minnesotans. We deserve more credit.

Besides the "blizzard", during my week in Newry I went out for a nice meal, ate a lovely stirfry dinner with the McGraths, got proposed to by Mr. Conor Mcgrath himself, watched all the power go out in the South of Ireland from across the bay in Newry, had a coffee at "Fulla Beans", took a gorgeous drive through the Mourne Mountains, and all around wished I had a little more time off. Sigh! I arrived back at Corrymeela last evening thankfully to a electronically powered site, and ready to work again this morning. Busy busy!! I can't believe I only have 4 weeks left...