Yes, Chris;
I fully agree! - Though nowadays its a lot more difficult to stay somewhere overnight for a reasonable fee. Those days I always stayed in them phantastic An Oige Youth Hostels. Now many, many are closed and lie in riuns, such as Tre An Lour Lodge, north of Newport; Mountshannon has been sold long ago, John Harvey is a sindaco in close by Castletown, Lough Dergh, Ballinclea probably does not exist any more - or that fairy tale like Mountain Lodge where there was only gas and no electricity.
These days are gone forever - and I wonder where to stay.
In those days I took a series of them oulde High Crosses on Kodak Panatomic 35-mm-film - and enlarging them on Agfa Record Rapid RRS or RRN in kodak Selectol developer - best enlargement I ever made. - Though Ilfords MG warmtone baryta is also excellent.
Thinking back with deep pleasure - alos looking onto GAlway Bay from thm Burren stoney fields right across to the Arran Islands!
Jan-Peter