Seekajaktour: Umrundung Irlands im Seekajak 2015

Meetings / Findings
While paddling and working your way along, you certainly learn a lot about the
country, the people and yourself. You meet conditions and people, find new
friends and even find out something about yourself, if you want to. This is an
attempt to sum it up for me and perhaps for you as well.
People
People were always helpful – Ewen MacMahon looking after us when being weatherbound in Annestown
Of course, when planning the trip we were very much focused on “going round”, planning
crossings, “doing” headlands and experiencing nature. So the biggest surprise for us was
that meeting people along the Irish coast turned out to be one of the greatest and most
touching experience of our trip. So once we will be paddling in Ireland again, this will be
more about revisiting the people we met than re-viewing the landscape. Telling all the stories
about these human encounters would be sometimes too boring or too personal. However I
would like to try sum it up. And summing up means some times “putting people into drawers”
(i.e. clustering them) as we say in German. I hope they do not mind as I try to make the
drawers I put them in rather comfy ;-)
So looking back to all our encounters, I experienced three different kind of people and
attitudes to our journey:
o People who wonder
o People who are interested
o People who understand
© Christian Dingenotto 2015
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