Delighted to announce we recently set up a Trip Advisor page to showcase Glendalough Guided Walks.
You can visit the page by clicking on this link or on the image to the left.
If you enjoyed your walk, please feel free to comment.
Martin
A Poem for Glendalough
Glendalough Suite
Derrybawn
Hill of the white oak grove, beloved of Nelson’s fleet.
Victory left the valley folk burning faggots.
Lugduff & Poulaneass
Black Hole Mountain Brook, father of the two lakes.
Powerful force, a torrent in streams clothing.
Speaks to us in splashes now of the ice that spawned it.
Spink
Treacherous Pointed rock. Master view of lakes and valley,
luring unwary travelers to a sloping edge too far
Tonlegee
Ton Le Gaoithe, Back To the Wind. Always the wind,
from every direction. Stick your head up proud high
over Wicklow. Many an Ice Age since you were warm.
manys the bitter blast a Phog Do Thon.
Camaderry
The Pass of the Oak Wood, nobly named in ages past before
the rape of ships and mineshafts
Brockagh
Once a village, proud, hardwon, hardmade.That was then.
Now even Broc himself finds life hard on this bare and
barren rock
Glendalough,
magic mystic valley cradled in its mountain arms
Martin Swords
A Wish at the Glenalo River Bridge – “I Wish the Rain Would Stop!”
Two adventurous American ladies, young in spirit, enjoyed their Glendalough Guided Walk with guide Martin Swords. They stopped on the new wooden bridge over the Glenalo River, where the old bridge had been swept away by the floods of 2009/2010, and threw their coins in the river to make a wish. But it kept on raining, despite their wishes. Still, they had a great time, even in the rain !
A Good Visit to Ireland, and Glendalough
Aug 2011, Dear Martin……
Last but not least, we enjoyed very much your guided tour through Glendalough and the great amount of information you gave us….
Cez…. and Ewi…
(friends from Poland)
‘Mad’, but happy he took the Guided Walk !
“I thought I knew a lot about Glendalough……but after your walk….I know a lot more
now”
‘Mad’ Barry Walsh, Wexford
” A walk in the dreech “
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A companion on the walk
I had a lovely guided walk with a young couple from Poland, who knew quite a lot about Ireland before they arrived, much of it learned from their Lonely Planet guidebook.
The day was wettish, dampish, what we in Ireland call ” a soft day” or ” dreech ” – the rain never really fell heavy, it sort of hung there in wispy strips, not able to make its mind up whether to fall or blow away.
Anyway they loved the walk and learned a lot about St. Kevin, Seamus Heaney, and sphagnum moss ! ! I even asked them as “homework” to investigate bogs and peatland on the net.
Bet the Lonely Planet doesn’t know about ” Dreech “.
Bye for now, more after the next Glendalough Guided Walk Martin Swords
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Short video introducing the walks goes live!
We have put together a very short video introducing the guided walks and myself, Martin Swords.
I am currently working on a more expansive piece but happy to have this for now.
Enjoy
Glendalough Guided Walks from Martin Swords on Vimeo.
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