Another (and perhaps the last) trip to St Vincents hospital where Ali was signed off following her successful second hip operation. I parked by the sea and ran across the strand to the South Bull Wall only to have to turn around before completing it because the appointment took less time than we ad expected. It looks like I was swimming but the tide was out and the strand is very flat.
my track 6.5 miles
Here are some photos to mark the occasion, and try not to be too bored to scroll down to the must see Youtube link at the end...
The original power station chimneys, now disused
The new power station also has twin chimneys
The red and white striped chimneys of the original power station dominate the Dublin skyline and feature in my blog post about my last run in this area. Following that run I did a bit of Googling and came up with the following Youtube video which blew my mind, also made me feel queasy just watching him get up over the edge onto the chimney's lid and then walk around the edge. Both chimneys are over 200m tall. Whilst the guy, whose name is Oliver, has been heavily criticised by the powers that be (whose lax security permitted such a prank) for such foolish behaviour I regret I have to give him full credit.
An amazing thing happened today. I happened to be at the Square waiting in the car for Sarah who was attending a clinic: I tuned to Lyric fm only to discover that Liz Nolan on her "The full score" was playing the whole 80 minutes of Bruckner's eighth. I came in at the beginning of the 2nd movement (Scherzo). I had previously figured that Bruckner was not flavour of the month on Lyric!
The recording was from this years Proms where the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Andris Nelsons explore scale in a programme that sets Bruckner’s vast Symphony No. 8 (1890 version, ed. Nowak) against the meticulous detail of Bach’s organ works.
A grand day out with two visitors from Nantes, France, my granddaughter and a friend. The outward journey was via the M7 through the Limerick tunnel under the Shannon estuary, around the Burren, and back via Galway city. Rather than pay heavily per person to park at the visitor centre, we opted for the cliff walk car park just 3 euro. Then spent what we had saved on our supper. I would have run the length of LaHinch strand but They weren't fussed by the ocean. Click on the photos to enlarge.
