30th Birthday Party in Kilkee, Co. Clare, Ireland - 22nd September 2007
Nosher and Isobel (well, Isobel actually) drive from Cambridge, via Macclesfield, North Wales, Holyhead, Dun Laoghaire to Kilkee in the county of Clare in the west of Ireland. We make it there for about 10pm (after driving around for a while looking for it, as it's tucked away in the middle of nowhere) where the party is in full swing. So Iz catches up with a bunch of mates, human pyramids are formed, a small bicycle is destroyed and beer is consumed. Then most of the group head out into town, but we crash out early and bagsy a sleeping spot.
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Hand-to-hand cycle combat |
A human pyramid, topped with a child's bike, is formed |
The pyramid collapses in to a heap of bodies |
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Cycling around the lounge |
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Champagne is popped |
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The bottle of champagne is passed around for communal swigs |
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Iz has a slurp |
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Surprise as a birthday cake arrives |
In the morning: the view out of the bedroom window |
A crow flies off from its power-line perch |
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Barry fails to notice that the armchair is already occupied |
Hat action in the kitchen |
Looking at photos |
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On Kilkee beach: a dead and decaying sea-bird |
Isobel wanders across the beach at Kilkee |
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A derelict building |
Steps to the sea-front |
The Atlantic Ocean |
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Waves crash against the cliffs |
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Isobel on a cliff-top |
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An inflatable dinghy takes on the waves |
Warning signs have been amusingly modified |
The writhing seas look almost like a field of snow |
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The sea at Kilkee |
Seawater runs off the rocks |
We bump into some of the group whilst wandering along the cliff-top path |
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Nosher and Isobel in a hole in the ground |
An old dude contemplates life and his pipe in a concrete shelter |
Iz starts down the steps to the "Puffin' hole" |
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A rainbow is formed as spray blasts up though the "Puffin' Hole" |
Raging seas batter distant cliffs |
A couple look out to sea |
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Hanging out at the cliff-top café |
A bronze statue of the 17-year-old actor Richard Harris, who lived in a house nearby |
The boys giggle guiltily having destroyed the car's windscreen-wiper |
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We try to organise a restaurant for lunch, whilst hanging around the car park |
Barry and Mafé share a hug |
More hangin' around outside a corner shop |
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