Isobel in the kitchen
30th Birthday Party in Kilkee, County Clare, Ireland - 22nd September 2007
Nosher and Isobel (well, Isobel actually) drive from Cambridge, via Macclesfield, North Wales, Holyhead and Dun Laoghaire to Kilkee in the county of Clare in the west of Ireland. We make it there for about 10pm, after driving around for a while looking for it as it's tucked away in the middle of nowhere, to find that the party is in full swing. Isobel catches up with a bunch of mates, human pyramids are formed, a small bicycle is destroyed and beer is consumed. Then most of the group head out into town, but we crash out early and bagsy a sleeping spot.
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previous album: A Road Trip to Ireland Via Sandbach and Conwy, Cheshire and Wales - 21st September 2007
Isobel catches up
Someone tries to ride a child's bike
Hand-to-hand cycle combat
A human pyramid, topped with a child's bike, is formed
The bike is removed
The pyramid collapses in to a heap of bodies
Back in the kitchen
James discovers a bottle of fizz
Hands up
Champagne is popped
The bottle of champagne is passed around for communal swigs
Surprise as a birthday cake arrives
Peering in to the party from outside
In the morning: the view out of the bedroom window
Isobel's car - the 'roller skate'
Two crows on a power line
There's a discarded door in a hedge
Isobel and the morning after
Barry fails to notice that the armchair is already occupied
Hat action in the kitchen
Wetsuits on the line
There's a session looking at photos
On Kilkee beach: a dead and decaying sea-bird
Isobel wanders across the beach at Kilkee
Climbing up the steep ramp from the sea
A derelict building
Kilkee harbour
On the rocks
The Atlantic Ocean
Walking the street by seafront houses
The town of Kilkee, from the rocks
Isobel on a cliff-top
An inflatable dinghy takes to the waves
Warning signs have been amusingly modified
The writhing seas look almost like a field of snow
Seawater runs off the rocks
We bump into some of the group whilst wandering along the cliff-top path
An old dude contemplates life and his pipe in a concrete shelter
Isobel starts down the steps to the 'Puffin' hole'
A rainbow is formed as spray blasts up though the 'Puffin' Hole'
Raging seas batter distant cliffs
The Puffin' Hole
A couple look out to sea
People stand on the lip of the Puffin' Hole
Hanging out at the cliff-top café
A bronze statue of Richard Harris as a boy
Leaving the café
The boys giggle guiltily having destroyed the car's windscreen-wiper
An empty band stand
The grim-looking Waterfront
There's a meeting by a car
We try to organise a restaurant for lunch
Barry and Mafé share a hug
We hang around outside Nolan's for a bit
More hangin' around outside a corner shop
Sitting on a windowsill
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Isobel in the kitchen
Isobel in the kitchen
Isobel catches up
Someone tries to ride a child's bike
Hand-to-hand cycle combat
A human pyramid, topped with a child's bike, is formed
The bike is removed
The pyramid collapses in to a heap of bodies
Back in the kitchen
James discovers a bottle of fizz
Hands up
Champagne is popped
The bottle of champagne is passed around for communal swigs
Surprise as a birthday cake arrives
Peering in to the party from outside
In the morning: the view out of the bedroom window
Isobel's car - the 'roller skate'
Two crows on a power line
There's a discarded door in a hedge
Isobel and the morning after
Barry fails to notice that the armchair is already occupied
Hat action in the kitchen
Wetsuits on the line
There's a session looking at photos
On Kilkee beach: a dead and decaying sea-bird
Isobel wanders across the beach at Kilkee
Climbing up the steep ramp from the sea
A derelict building
Kilkee harbour
On the rocks
The Atlantic Ocean
Walking the street by seafront houses
The town of Kilkee, from the rocks
Isobel on a cliff-top
An inflatable dinghy takes to the waves
Warning signs have been amusingly modified
The writhing seas look almost like a field of snow
Seawater runs off the rocks
We bump into some of the group whilst wandering along the cliff-top path
An old dude contemplates life and his pipe in a concrete shelter
Isobel starts down the steps to the 'Puffin' hole'
A rainbow is formed as spray blasts up though the 'Puffin' Hole'
Raging seas batter distant cliffs
The Puffin' Hole
A couple look out to sea
People stand on the lip of the Puffin' Hole
Hanging out at the cliff-top café
A bronze statue of Richard Harris as a boy
Leaving the café
The boys giggle guiltily having destroyed the car's windscreen-wiper
An empty band stand
The grim-looking Waterfront
There's a meeting by a car
We try to organise a restaurant for lunch
Barry and Mafé share a hug
We hang around outside Nolan's for a bit
More hangin' around outside a corner shop
Sitting on a windowsill