点评:My wife and I recently returned from Fanore on Ireland’s west coast - on the Wild Atlantic Way - where we enjoyed a very comfortable three night stay in one of Fanore Holiday Cottages. These delightful cottages are maintained to a high standard and open fireplaces. We especially enjoyed lighting a peat fire in the evenings, which made our cottage very cosy.
During our stay we took an afternoon excursion to the Burren with Burren Mountain Tours. Our guide, Anne, drove us to the top of the mountain making stops along the way for us to capture photographs of the landscape ; a landscape created by melting glaciers thousands of years ago. Imagine walking on a lunar-like surface with extensive limestone pavements, along with boulders ranging from small to massive just as they had been deposited by glacier melt way back in time.
And yet this landscape is not merely a grey desert. Here on limestone pavements you find many kinds of formations, including grykes. Within these grykes - hollows - Irelands native plants cohabit with Arctic, Alpine and Mediterranean species.
Our afternoon tour also included a picnic provided by our guide before we moved on to take in the greener aspects of the Burren. This included a valley landscape , which had been inhabited by Neolithic era farmers somewhere between 4,000 and 2,500 years ago.
Burren Mountain Tours delivered a unique experience and one that we will always treasure. We highly recommend this tour.
翻译:我和妻子最近从爱尔兰西海岸的法诺尔(Fanore)——位于野性大西洋之路——回来。我们在法诺尔度假小屋度过了非常舒适的三晚。这些令人愉悦的小屋维护得非常高标准,并设有开放式壁炉。我们尤其喜欢在晚上点燃泥炭火,这让我们的小屋非常温馨。
入住期间,我们参加了巴伦山地之旅(Burren Mountain Tours)的下午巴伦之旅。我们的导游安妮(Anne)开车送我们到山顶,沿途停下来让我们拍摄风景照片;这片风景是由数千年前的冰川融化形成的。想象一下,行走在如月球般平坦的地面上,铺满了大片石灰岩路面,还有大小不一的巨石,就像很久以前冰川融化沉积下来的一样。
然而,这片风景不仅仅是一片灰色的沙漠。在石灰岩路面上,你会发现各种各样的地貌,包括石窟(grykes)。在这些洞穴(grykes)中,爱尔兰本土植物与北极、阿尔卑斯和地中海物种和谐共存。
下午的行程还包括由导游提供的野餐,之后我们继续欣赏巴伦的绿色景观。其中包括一片山谷景观,大约在4000到2500年前,这里曾是新石器时代农民的居住地。
巴伦山区之旅为我们带来了一次独特的体验,我们将永远珍惜这次旅程。我们强烈推荐这次行程。