Ulysses' Tower?

That James Joyce spent a few days in The Martello Tower in Sandycove is taken out of all proportion in the renaming of the tower. Joyce's Tower is just one of some forty-two distinctive defensive buidlings dotted around the coast line. Napoleon had other ideas and the French didn't arrive. But Stephen Dedalus did via Ulysses and James Joyce gets his name on the tower he wrote about. In consequence, Sandycove has become a major Bloomsday hive of activity. Why not Ulysses' Tower? Or Heron Close?

The light this morning was really good for photos but I'd only brought my 55-250 mm zoom lens. A warm day, the East Pier was relatively quiet since it was before 9 am on a Sunday. I still wonder about people clutching hot lattes on powerwalks - seems mad to me.

Racheted up another 5.6 km which takes me over 300 km.

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Two Piers

A Sunday stroll to the end of the East Pier. The tide was full, the sea oily smooth under the high pressure, anticyclonic conditions.  A scramble of yachts was mobilising to the spaced starts for the various classes. Families ambled, kids on tricycles, double decker prams, power walkers, a bearded bard carrying his guitar case to play for change.

Another change in plans had me do the second pier and cover a total of 8.5 km. Snippets of overheard conversation strung out of context - you'd need the 16 gig - I'm walking on the pier - really bad, no really - hold on, I'm coming too. There were lots of Polish going to fish. A boy wearing a Biarritz rugby shirt, probably sad they lost to Toulouse last night in an uninspiring final.

SPONSOR WANTED: 8.5 KM