Our next halt in the Connemara tour was Kylemore Castle. The first sight of entry was near Kylemore castle or Abbey. Also it was surrounded by the Church and Victorian walled garden.. Along side, we saw the snowy mountains, rivers and sheep which was painted on the back with different colors by the sheep farmers to be identified.
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Then we went to the Killary sheep farm where we got a demonstration of turf cutting and we were standing on a place which was 5000 years old. It was really surprising when the trained dog of the sheep farmer was riding the sheeps by just hearing the signals and words of his master. When he just tells come by, it starts and then when he tell stand by it stops... It was really cool, and then by hearing the whistle sound, it starts moving... Really well trained.Then he showed us feeding 2 young sheep calves with a feeding bottle. Then we signed off back to the Galway city and enjoyed a city tour for an hour there... All along we saw mountains, rivers, valleys and lakes - It was a natural visual treat... River Shannon was one of the biggest river and Phoenix park on of the longest park (11 km walled) in Europe itself.
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Then it was good to know about the Number plates in cars of Ireland - The first 2 digits start with the year and the next is an alphabet which denotes the city e.g: D for Dublin, G for Galway etc.. Starting from 2013, the car owners changed it as 3 digits as 13 is considered as unlucky or bad omen in many parts of the country... So they changed it to 131 and 132 (131 - first half of year 2013 and second half of year as 132) Then if you see a car with 141 - D- 299124 - then its a brand new car released now in the year 2014. That ends the Connemara tour and lets talk on another tour we went later on..
To be continued ...
Then we went to the Killary sheep farm where we got a demonstration of turf cutting and we were standing on a place which was 5000 years old. It was really surprising when the trained dog of the sheep farmer was riding the sheeps by just hearing the signals and words of his master. When he just tells come by, it starts and then when he tell stand by it stops... It was really cool, and then by hearing the whistle sound, it starts moving... Really well trained.Then he showed us feeding 2 young sheep calves with a feeding bottle. Then we signed off back to the Galway city and enjoyed a city tour for an hour there... All along we saw mountains, rivers, valleys and lakes - It was a natural visual treat... River Shannon was one of the biggest river and Phoenix park on of the longest park (11 km walled) in Europe itself.
Then it was good to know about the Number plates in cars of Ireland - The first 2 digits start with the year and the next is an alphabet which denotes the city e.g: D for Dublin, G for Galway etc.. Starting from 2013, the car owners changed it as 3 digits as 13 is considered as unlucky or bad omen in many parts of the country... So they changed it to 131 and 132 (131 - first half of year 2013 and second half of year as 132) Then if you see a car with 141 - D- 299124 - then its a brand new car released now in the year 2014. That ends the Connemara tour and lets talk on another tour we went later on..
To be continued ...
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