On the Road toward Donegal

Tonight ( Saturday) we are just south of Donegal in the far northwestern part of the country.  We will be passing into Northern Ireland tomorrow and will be back to using pounds.  With the vote deciding that Great Britain will leave the EU, there are a lot of heated conjectures about the fate of the pound, whether Scotland will call for another referendum to separate from Great Britain, and whether there will be another push for the unification of the 26 counties in the Republic of Ireland with the 6 counties in Northern Ireland. We definitely have the sense that we are witnessing an historic event.

Today we visited Kylemore Abbey and the town of Cong where the movie "The Quiet Man" was filmed in 1951 with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara.

Reminds me of a Gothic novel setting

Beautiful gardens at the abbey 

 

Statue commemorating the movie