Above is a photo looking across the River Suir from the Quays at Waterford. The girl's face you can see is about 40m high, installed for one of our festivals by an Austrian artist.
Below another shot from the car - showing the blue and white festooning that preceded Waterford's appearance in the All Ireland Hurling Final. The flags, which appeared on almost every building in the county, only get used every 40 years, the frequency with which the local team makes the final.
One of the great stereotypes of Irish life is the idea that you spend half your life trapped behind assorted tractors on narrow country lanes. In our experience this is only partly true, as the pictures below show...
You can actually be trapped behind tractors on fairly wide roads too.
We have to admire the optimism, and outright peculiarity, of some of the signage. Our local favourite is the one which states "Major Junction Ahead".The sign is reproduced here, followed by a photograph of the "Major Junction" at peak hour.
The man and his dog were running late that day.
This last snap is just around the corner from Bob's Lodge. Any morning en-route to work we can catch something similar from this angle.
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