Greetings blog followers,if any! I'm reporting live from the Stena Europe, en route to Fishguard from Rosslare, county Wexford, Ireland, having completed a highly enjoyable week in the Emerald Isle; 3 days in Dublin taking part in the Bloomsday celebrations, and a further 3 days in the far north, partly in order to see one of the most famous pieces of geology in the entire world, namely the Giant's Causeway on the Antrim coast.
I intend to report on events in more detail tomorrow, but in summary I would say that the Dublin portion was one of the happiest 3 days of my life, while our stay in Northern Ireland was marked by several incidents of hostility from the local population, some of whose paranoid and unfriendly attitudes smack of the kind of vibe that you used to feel coming off white South Africans in the days of Apartheid. I guess you can see the parallels: both communities used to exert a stranglehold on a separate and dispossessed group, and I suppose they continue to feel a sense of resentment at their lost hegemony.
More tomorrow...
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