Mountshannon in the sunshine

So we've been in Mountshannon for the weekend baking in sunshine. A quick trip home to pick up a few bits and pieces then back to the boat for 10 days. It's mobbed in the harbour, but there's a great atmosphere. We launched the sailing dinghy yesterday and went out in not much wind, which is always good for the first sail. But today was fabulous. A brisk north westerly kept us buzzing along out to Holy Island, then a broad reach brought us back to harbour at a cracking clip.

The Iniscealtra Arts Festival is on this week, so we went to an event last night that was advertised as a Big Band. We were thinking saxophones and trumpets, and there was indeed a trumpet, but Count Basie it was not. There was a DJ raised up at the back with an Apple Mac and a record deck. In front of him dressed in black and white with ties and hats were a double bass player, a trumpet player and four vocalists. Behind all of this was a screen showing repeats of, for example, a small boy jumping up and down. There were occasional instructions to jump or to clap which people obligingly did. The DJ played a background music and the musicians did a sort of karaoke to it. I think they probably play places like Ibiza. It was very entertaining, if a little unexpected.

Posts may be sporadic as we go up the river. We're aiming for Enniskillen.