My friendship with a Connemara Pony “I must stay there for a couple of days when I’m in Ireland!” I promised myself after viewing those beautiful photos of Connemara. Where there is a will, there is a way. I was there some months later. Having taken a rental bike for the whole day going along the Connemara Loop under the typical Irish weather, sunshine and rain and sunshine and rain, I survived and was able to return to the hostel safely, even though I almost crashed into a crowd of sheep blocking the road. There near the hostel, I enjoyed an amazing sunset at Killary Fjord, the only fjord in Ireland, with ranges of mountains surrounding the crystal blue water. Those mountains inspired my plan for the next day. I decided to hike up to the
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