We decided to go west towards Galway. You´l find it one way or another if you turn like  90^o from  Dublin and just go straight (should reach it in some weeks if you walk..)  Bu I didn´t really felt like walking so we jumped on the train and reached the side of the country in about 3 hours.

Today morning I woke up from the sound. Have never heard the sound before, I kinda froze for a moment (as we all do when something is not as it use to be) and listened quietly..  Then stood up (Jo was still sleeping, sleepy head.. ) walked around, heard a noise again, looked out of the window and there was it!

 A whole bunch of sheep standing just down the rode besides the hotel. Some man with a car tried to scare them off the rode, but as it seemed sheep didn´t really got the situation going on, and kept bleating loudly in response.

As I´m raised in the city, I have never heard that sound before (in reality), quiet annoying sound actually..

But anyways Irish are connected with sheep. In 17th century the wool industry in Ireland grew dramatically, one country after another (especially in west) started opening factories with the successful high quality wool industry. The export of wool also became current in time.

In 18^th century  wool  industry declined and in 19th it stagnated. Now days the sheep is kept for more simple reason – meat. The wool industry is on but mostly only in between country lines.  Irish sheep population today  is about 3,5 million.

Some people keep them privately, and those sheep sometimes wander a bit to far from home.

why are they blue?