Fellow WIPpeteer Xina posted about a challenge the other day regarding ancient ruins. Since I love to travel, and one of the main things I like to do when traveling is visit old rocks (as I like to call them), I have a lot of travel photos of things ancient. I decided to share some pictures from a research trip to Ireland for my novel Yseult almost a decade ago.
First off, a picture from the ancient Celtic site, the Hill of Tara:
A couple of shots from the prehistoric burial grounds at Newgrange:
Megalithic monument from the Burren:
The early Christian site of Glendalough:
Ah, yes, it’s time for me to plan another trip to ancient monuments. 🙂
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Wow! These are awesome! I would love to go there and look at some “old rocks” too, haha. I have a bit of an obsession with ancient burial grounds (as weird as that sounds!). That mound looks gigantic!
Yeah, we really enjoyed Ireland. But then, we pretty much always enjoy our trips together. 🙂
Those are some amazing photos Ruth. Looks like it was an inspiring trip for you. 🙂
I actually had most of Yseult written at the time, but I did work on the descriptions again after the trip. 🙂
Gorgeous photos! I was so excited to visit Stonehenge at sunrise on the winter solstice last year… after three days of beautiful weather, of course that was the day it rained. Still, I was able to get right up close and threw away all my my museum and preservation training to touch the stones. :p
Yeah, Stonehenge is pretty amazing too. 🙂