Great Journey 🇮🇪 Day 703
A valley further on, the little shopping basket is filled in the village mini-market and we no longer have to go hungry, we find another quiet place by the river.
In the evening, the sun sets spectacularly, the stream babbles away and after a hike, the day is over here too.
As I have been doing for a while, I pick a few little flowers for our travelling garden. Here I get to know completely new flowers. Thanks to Google-Lens, I now also know what they are called. What google-lens doesn't tell me straight away, however, is that many of the beautifully flowering and flat-growing shrubs are nasty prickly bastards. I come back with my legs and arms covered in bruises and a pitiful selection in my hand. Let me say this in advance: this will change, because Ireland's street walls are the purest flowerbeds and make for the best bouquets since the beginning of our journey.
We watch our first Irish deer. Let the birds chirp us to sleep. And also woken up by them, because they are quite loud. They don't seem to care that we could sleep in today.
After a leisurely breakfast, we continue criss-crossing the Wicklows. Here a little stop, a little round, there a stone circle. The changeable weather gives us - we already know it - mini hikes. But as the temperatures here are much more pleasant, we enjoy every minute!
#WicklowMountains
Merci for "travelling with us
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What a wonderful landscape!!!!
Have you found out what the ribbons on the tree are all about?
Best regards to you both from Petershagen 😍
Yes, we did. Wait, I'll look it up right now...
Quote: "" One of the most common practices was to tie a strip of cloth - a clootie - to the sacred tree after washing, bathing or drinking from the well. The Celtic Irish believed that this practice drove disease into the cloth left behind. In some places a coin was thrown into the well as an offering. This custom has been maintained to this day. In many places you can see handkerchiefs, socks or other articles of clothing on the branches of trees around the spring or well."
MERIAN Travel Guide Ireland with Northern Ireland.
Dear greetings, dear Babsi!