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 Featured Bed and Breakfast in Clifden -Galway, Ireland

Alastair Sawday
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This place had an otherworldliness before I learned that Crocnaraw meant Hill of the Fairy Fort.Perhaps it was the bizarre lampshades, a throwback to when Lucy's mother started B&B in the 1960s.Perhaps it was the bamboo wardrobe and sky-blue bathroom.Maybe it was the beautiful garden that hides this Georgian fishing lodge from view.Or maybe it was the untroubled , almost ethereal quality about Lucy that completely dismantled my plans for the day.I sat talking with her and a well-spoken gentlemanin the timeworn Aga country kitchen for what seemed like ages.This is a house that can't be hurried.The rooms are eclectic period pieces fossilised somewhere between the '60s and the '80s and are a lot of fun.The drawing room is lovely and airy, ideal to kick back on a summer's day, while the warm snug with its turf fire would be just the place for a good book and a whiskey in winter.The wooden-floored dining room feels part tea-shop, part conservatory with lovely views of the garden planted by her mother from scratch.Lucy looks after it today, decorating the house with fresh flowers.She also looks after 4 special donkeys that live in a field next door.Here the magic of Ireland is alive and well

Taken from Alastair Sawday


Guide de Charme en Irlande

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Une adresse vintage ou l'on vit encore dans un décor des annees 60, du temps ou les parents de Lucy Fretwell s'installerent dans cette maison.Le melange heteroclite des meubles de cette epoque avec d'autres plus contemporains lui confere une ame toute particuliere qui nous a valu notre attention.Dans la salle a manger,50/60,vous pourrez profiter de la longue cheminee en pierres plates assemblees et de la collection de faiences suedoises tres tendance.Dans le salon Grec peint a la chaux de bonnes lectures vous attendent..A l'etage vous serez surpris par l'epaisse moquette kakie,des lumieres oranges et les repeints en noir mat, mais nous,nous avons aime.Toutes les chambres sont originales, parfois un peu desuetes: couverte de bambou, une salle de bains *papillons* ,une autre dans les nuages.On ne sait plus si l'on est en Grece,a New York ou en Suede..Si le doute persiste ,regardez par la fenetre la pelouse bien verte, la vigne vierge debordant des balcons, les fushias ,les hortensias et les 6 petits anes vous observant derriere la barriere. La lumiere,le jardin.la douceur voire la timidite de Lucy, le jardin potager, les anes font aussi que cette adresse decale est une adresse de charme

-extrait du Guide de Charme en Irlande
 

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Fishing Cruisers and Ferries to the Islands The restored Victorian Garden at Kylemore Abbey is worth a visit

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