Glendalough....the glen of two lakes.

During my trip to Ireland we went to Glendalough. It was a fabulously warm day about 22-25 degrees celsius and it was still only the first week in April. I went to Glendalough as a small kid and have not been there ever since and it is a small source of discomfort that in all the years I lived in Ireland I never did get to such places as this. It was a Thursday, the first of the month of April and it was to be a very warm day. We walked around the lake stopping for a long and leisurely time beside the lake and enjoying Adam's (my 1 year old nephew) enjoyment of the whole thing. We had a lunch first and by the time we had walked all around and rested by the lake it was time to get dinner late in the evening. As we were to get served and luckily with Adam sleeping through all of this it struck me that Ireland was now a very very prosperous country attracting all nationalities who come to work maybe seasonally and maybe for a long period of time in order for their families to have a better life. Didn't many of us Irish do the same in decades gone by? , and we thought nothing of it except the amazing brain drain that Ireland must have been suffering. Of course Ireland did experience the amazing lack of talent that our educational system was producing only for it to go to shores abroad. So as a nation lets enjoy and embrace what those cultures will bring to Ireland and not see it as a terrible negative. With prosperity brings social and economic changes and we should be glad that it is happening in Ireland. It is true to say that Ireland has become a very expensive country in which to live, but lets try to look at the prosperity that the country is going through, I never saw so much cranes in the city of Dublin and when I was a student working in Germany for a few Deutschmarks I had an invaluable experience. Life is to experienced in the most optimistic ways.