No I haven’t
lost my mind or sense of direction, but the Obama family visit to Glendalough
and Wicklow could drive up visitor numbers to the Nire
Valley in County Waterford
During walking festival, last October, we were
all returning to Doocey’s Pub in Ballymacarbry when a car pulled up beside us
and the driver, in a heavy German accent, asked if we could direct them to the interpretative
center. Thinking we had misheard him asked “where are you looking for” to which
he joyfully replied the interpretative center. We told him we had a community
center and a hostel but no interpretative center. “The interpretative center
near the lake” he announced worried that his perfect English was getting lost
in the clear Comeragh air. We looked at
him totally perplexed as we knew there was no building within five miles of the
Comeragh lakes let alone an interpretative center. “The interpretative centre
at St. Kevin’s Tower” he volunteered. Ah
we said, all together. “Your lost---” you are looking for Glendalough in
Wicklow and your GPS has taken you to Glendaloughin in Co Waterford, you are
not the first.
If you go to Google Earth and look at photos in
and around Glendaloughin in the Nire Valley Co. Waterford you will see various
people have placed a picture, of Glendalough Wicklow, into the Nire Valley
So a combination of Michelle Obama and car GPS
should see an increase in numbers in the Nire Valley
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