Seekajaktour: Umrundung Irlands im Seekajak 2015

Coffee and Cake
good humour.
Happy well-fed Mirco at Great Blasket
The highlight of a sometimes rather dim day. The feeling
of being soaked, coming into a pub or a coffee shop
feeling the warm atmosphere and the promise of tasty
food and lots of calories.
A typical dialogue: “Hi, what´s this pie?” – “It is rhubarbpie”
– “Looks great – we´d like to have one” – “one
piece?”- “Oh no, no, no.. one pie” – “You want to take it
away? – “No we (two) eat it here – you can cut it into four
pieces, if you like”
What we did not tell her at that point of the talk that we
were just planning to have the pie as the starter: we
already had focused on a big chocolate cake with ice
cream as a second course …
So the most expensive part of the journey was buying the
cake, the latte for mirco and the cappuccino for me. But it
was worth it – allowing us to keep our spirits high and our
Asking the way
Another, for Mirco, a bit embarrassing habit of mine. He himself followed the ideal of a
foolproof seakayaker. He never liked me knocking on doors and asking the way. “We need
not do that – I know where we are …”. Of course we knew –more or less most of the time.
But for me it turned out to be a means of contact, getting in touch with people even if it only
was at their door-step. Knocking on doors and talking about the weather or other “small-talk”
would be less authentic than asking for the way, wouldn´t it?
Returning from asking the way – Roaring Water Bay
© Christian Dingenotto 2015
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