The weather here on the west coast of Ireland is fantastic... everyone we meet is in shock but delighted about the sun...but there are drawbacks - every morning so far we have had our breakfast al fresco.... until today... last night we had to flee the midges much earlier then usual and in the morning when we awoke - we looked out of the van and it was a potential Hitchcock movie..... swarms of midges surrounding the van - millions of the little blighters - there was not a breath of a breeze and we were trapped...I think its a combination of bogland mountains and a yellow beryl..aggghhhh....
We fled as quickly as we could get organised feeling a bit out out... but the morning was salvaged as we stopped 45 mins later for breakfast next to the sea and to our delight an otter swam up caught a fish dragged it out and sat not 20 yards away eating it and then it rolled about in the seaweed playing!! What a treat...
We left the ship to explore Vigo. Its a much larger place then we expected... although tbh I hadn't given ut a lot of thought. Its a real mish mash of old and new and having got a map from tourist info we decided to follow the walking trail to the Monte Castro... the highest point of the town. Most of the town was pretty much as everywhere else... lots of traffic... lots of people... one or two interesting buildings and a lot of shopping. We headed to the art gallery - this has been a year of gallery visits so we we seen o reason to change now. The Museo de Marco is housed in the towns ex prison building and its very grand. In fact, I think that on this occaision the building might have been more interesting than the art.... Although the visiting exhibition by Susanne S D Themlitz was strangely compelling. It was a huge varied collection of eclectic items... found, salavaged, manipulated and arranged in lots of ways - weirdly inspiring - and mostly enjoyable to look at...
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