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Wickla

Posted on | November 28, 2008 | 2 Comments

Last Friday I headed to Wicklow for a friend’s surprise 40th birthday party. I lived there from when I was approximately aged 10 till I headed to college but hadn’t been back in recent years.

Ireland: Wicklow
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I had a most excellent night catching up with old pals. The welcome was brilliant, the craic was good and it really didn’t seem that it’d been so long since we’d all hung out together.

Ireland: Wicklow
Creative Commons License photo credit: Kevin Lawver

Wicklow has changed a fair bit since I lived there: it has grown immensely and sprawls out in most directions. What I really like about it and what I really took for granted growing up there is its proximity to the sea. The houses where we lived all had sea views. The Murrough is a fabulous amenity for decent walks along the sea shore.

Summers were spent down at the pier, out in Silver Strand or Brittas Bay. As a disgruntled teenager, these facts didn’t really figure on my list of priorities and I was itching to leave and get to Dublin to college.

Now, I feel ever so slightly different. It won’t be as long before I visit again.

Ellen’s blog has some great photos here.

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2 Responses to “Wickla”

  1. K8
    November 28th, 2008 @ 9:47 pm

    That’s gas! I loved Wickla, we lived there for 5 years and integrated ourselves into the social scene a bit… everybody who lives there our age can’t wait to get out of there!

    I see what they mean though… it’s a very laid-back town and has a great music scene but after a while it gets a bit same-ish.

    I think that’s a good thing! Long may Wicklow spirit last.

  2. Manic Mammy
    November 29th, 2008 @ 12:31 pm

    Hey K8,
    I guess you don’t appreciate what you have till its changed, especially when you’re a teenager!

    Though now living here in Bandon in West Cork for 5+ years and having lived in Dublin for 10+ years, I still feel more at home in Wicklow. I think its perhaps, because I went to school there?

    Still an ambition of mine to live in a house on a beach, though that’ll wait till the kids are grown up and flown the coup.
    Probably only another 20 odd years to go ;-)

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