Wednesday, June 5, 2013. Day 4 of Backroads bike trip. Riding from Kenmare to Carragh Lake. Ballaghbeama Gap. Lunch at Blackstone House. Carrig Country House hotel. Irish story teller.
Today is wednesday june fifth it’s the fourth day of our bike trip we’ve left ken Maher and riding up across the kerry peninsula heading to molls gap kim mayor’s back there and that’s where we’re headed to molls gap i believe that this is molls gap right up here this is
Barf in e lake on the road to steam this is the pancake cottage this is on the road the small road to Glenn car this is still the road to Glenn car here’s a little climb we have coming up almost to the top with these rocks everywhere just amazing
This little guys lost his way and getting figure out how to get back across the fence here’s mama okay so you let it this is the past we just rode down from this is the view from our lunch spot at blackstones house B&B Maureen’s made another great lunch for us today thanks
For lunch the lake that has been riding along for the last little while gets down to this point and then just turns back into a stream this is our home for the next two nights the caring country house this is my room in the carriage country house
And here’s the lake that we just rode around in the road lake and then down to that stone bridge I’m fine okay super facilities well this is uh this is very relaxed atmosphere 11n must feel relaxed but I suppose it’s conducive to what I do which is very
Much the oral tradition a tradition that was part and parcel of life around here for a long long time so I’m going to give you a little bit of my own background and through that you will see where you will see this thread of story going Miley generation is seeing
Possibly the greatest changed it could possibly common country in one generation I know how much the history to come to you know how we know very little well you know the size of our staff is the size of Indiana main Wisconsin that’s about it and you can
Take that personally interview but um we had our troubles of the British for many years there’s hundred years in fact you had some taller than two in your part of the world we did you had one decent revolution and new colored rights and that was the end of it we had six
Revolutions before we gotta write this and tell me no more is there anyone sitting in all this file such a night I could tell me oh the first flow in our women came to be invented huh it looks like as if I’m not even the answer i might endure the answer that question
Either except that i know these two punch backs one was one of the crankiest encontre least meant the devastating tissue river and the other felt was a fine happy guru his abdomen one day the happier to hunchbacks went into town fort was a fair day or a market in town
Now at the best of times if he was traveling along a country road and if he came to a hump on the road he was so hunched over to the ground he’d have to carry his nose around the home he arrived into town filmin great company time passed easily drink flowed
Freely and when darkness fell and trust time for the hunchback to head for home he was in bad shape two of the three mites he left the village are very unsteady feet and he was a mile out of town when the sleep and the drink got
The better of him he would go on O Father and will create difficulty he turned over all orphans and threw himself down at the foot of a big rock and now I’m coming to the crucial part of my store he fell endowed with six mushrooms hello jump six in the wee folk
Mad as Hatter’s and suffered crossing and blasting him in Gaelic grass the dear hope malott day off and a lot more I couldn’t repeat with women in the audience I’m sorry gentleman says the hunchback I didn’t know you were there now you see mushrooms are the fairies
Umbrellas and you dare to the field marshal by only the other line I hope there’s nobody listening to me that had the misfortune of aiding a mushroom since you came to Ireland for if you did it would be intense trouble to fold into the world mark my words there Hunchback
Threw himself down at the edge of a ferry for now the wee folk can only start their capers after midnight and they have to be gone again before the marsh rooster crows in the morning your man fell into a drunken sleep and out into the night he heard the words of a
Song in Gaelic coming through the night air they are living in them or they’re doing they’re more Monday Tuesday Monday Tuesday and you jumped up out of his sleep and he said fine song but they don’t all the words of it and he had a little piece up to the song they are
Ruined jamort they’re low in demo dear lowing they’re more take Katie there was a golden silence aside in the ferry for a flash of lightning the fourth split open Oh came onto the wee folk and there was one tall fella in the bedroom about two foot six waving a flag who was the
Man city that gave us the words of a song that we’re looking for for the past two thousand years and they invited a hunch back into the 34 now there’s one piece of advice I’d give you before I go step trouble if you ever have the good
Fortune or the misfortune to be invited into a fairy fort always refuse the force drink take everything after that and that’s what I’m inspected and when you refuse the first drink the king of the fairies looked down from his throne and he set him saying that you won’t
Take a drink can we do anything at all for you oh god G Candace’s with somebody take that misfortune Avant off my back you won’t believe what happened 20 fairies gather round him and while you’ll be kicking your fingers there remove the Hun shove his back pulled
Over in the corner through a covering over it and he remembered no more and he walked outside the fort in the morning and for the first time in his life he was able to straighten his back it is for home the happiest man on earth who
Does he need at the edge of his orange only the second punch back mr. Noah you looked rid of it how did you do it he taught him the full story the second hunchback tunnel and the scenes walked all the ways the fairly poor found the
Big rock threw himself down at the foot of it and fell on top of 10 mushrooms and out jumped ten of the wee folk not as others instead of cursing and blasting him and getting and he crushed him back that was his first mistake fell asleep out into the night he heard the
Words of a song and gaining wafting through the night here dear Lewand amor del luna moth dildoing d’amour kk d your perspective job is not the best i can do he broke into a Walker’s course old song Orion no to no meaning and before he
Knew what he was there was that cup of tumblr the fourth split up out came hundreds of the way for they caught him by the ears by the hair by the legs and pull him into the he fought right onto the thrall of the king of the fairies and one small man
Laptop to the king is what will we do with the man that spoiled the beautiful song with him last night and the King say to go over to the corner bring me back that hump and put it on top of had he already has no got him and that
Hunchback walk was said before to the morning let me tell you something if his nose was close to the ground before he went in without touching the ground and he tried to walk forward of a woman he couldn’t how could he his nose isn’t the
Way and the only way he could get almost to turn around and back his way across the fields and under way his nose opened up a trench and all that ish farmer start happening and has a wonderful idea for inventing a blow that’s how the first blow came to the Indian well what
We did for you there was give you create the image of the shower give you little the flavor of the language of the Brogue ready and if you listen to the language around here almost every s that spoke the letter of age is put in for example
They don’t say stick I bought a pound of steak Roma pharmacy department of state with an age somewhere it’s very common I come from a tiny village called sneem if you want to be very precise but the local said schnee me and that comes through in the in the story that he was
He wasn’t sleeping he was she sleep