Finding a place to stay has been a different challenge to normal. Being near a tube station or within walking distance to work wasn't on the list of 'nice to haves'. What is important for the house is for it to be close enough to all the locations I plan to photograph. Being a landscape photographer means trying to catch the 'golden hour' around sunrise and sunset. Which in the Summer means being on location by 4am to catch the sunrise and 9pm to catch the sunset.

View above the cloud line flying into Dublin

I flew into Dublin on monday and drove over to Connemara early tuesday morning to view a few houses - having already made a selection online using www.daft.ie - it was lightly snowing when I left Dublin but by the time I drove 200km across the country to Galway the sun was shining and the skies were clear.

View from the end of the drive across Roundstone Bog towards the Twelve Bens

The house I settled on is in Ballyconneely, located in the West of Connemara on the Atlantic Coast. It is pretty remote but located near enough to a pub and local shop (the same building!). The beach is only 5 minutes walk away and Roundstone bog is at the end of the drive. The views are great with unobstructed sight of the Twelve Bens mountain range and Cashel and Errisbeg Mountains.

Just one of the 1000+ lakes within Roundstone Bog

Time to start packing and offloading my London A-Z.

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