[Artemisia] OT: Europe anyone?

[Gene Smith]

It's true....they've pretty much decided not to "impact" Tara 
itself...but the planned route is within visibile range.

There's a lot of expansion going on in the "UK" right now, and there's 
even one Castle that was threatened by a planned interchange.

Frideger (Archaeologist)





On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:53:02 -0700
"Sue Clemenger" <mooncat at in-tch.com> wrote: 
> Really? I was there just a couple of years ago.  I don't remember 
> any major
> traffic areas in the vicinity....
> Tara's a weird bunch of very lumpy, grass-covered hills.  Little 
> hills.  The
> grass was really long, and there was actually a guy trying to play 
> golf in
> it (!)  It was very cool that it was Tara, of course, and the hills 
> were
> obviously not natural, but it was hard to imagine it with buildings 
> and
> people and palisades, etc.
> There's a really cool, used bookstore on the site, too.  When I was 
> there,
> the proprietor was some famous guy who was a former jockey? 
> Wonderful old,
> dusty books....
> If you get a chance, I really, really, REALLY recommend going to 
> Newgrange.
> And Dublin.  National Museum, National Gallery...all free to go in 
> (paid
> with state lottery earnings).  Oh, and the library at Trinity, of 
> course.
> They'd just opened a really neat, new exhibit on the Book of Kells 
> when I
> was there in 2002.  (dang, hard to believe it was that long ago....)
> --Maire, jonesing to go back ;o)
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Spencer Maschek" <smaschek at hotmail.com>
> To: <artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 12:52 PM
> Subject: RE: [Artemisia] OT: Europe anyone?
> 
> 
> > My wife and I are planning to go to Ireland in the summer of 2006. 
> >Irish
> > government is planning a freeway through the tara hills site. We 
> >want to
> see
> > it before it is destroyed. Our Travel Agency is setting it up for a 
> >group
> > rate at far less than we were able to find elsewhere, for a one 
> >week trip
> to
> > Ireland and then another week on the mainland of Europe.
> > Vlad and Ealusaid
> > mka Spencer and Christy Maschek
> > Currently in the Barony of Seleone
> > Gulfport, Mississippi
> 
> 
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