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I’m at the wwoof farm in Ireland. It’s near a place called Sneem, which is the closest town to the farm. Getting here wasn’t much of a problem, and all the locals I asked seemed to know the place, even though once I got to Sneem I realized I didn’t have the farm’s phone number. I hung out for several hours in a nice pub called Riney’s and chatted from time to time with the very cute girl working the bar. I think she is a bit young for me, but she was nice all the same.

Kerry Alternative Technology is kinda crazy, haphazard interesting. Honestly, I can’t say that I like it all that much. It is really similar in a lot of ways to the farm near Almeria called Los Molinos de Bornos. KAT is “wwoofed up” as they called it - there’s 12 wwoofers there now and there’s a similar attitude and mood in them all to what I experienced in Spain. There’s a composting toilet like Paola’s, with not quite as nice a view. The farm is off the grid, with solar and wind and unique to this place is hydro power. (The alt-technology is the reason I wanted to come to this farm. Although, most of it is in disrepair and we haven’t and I imagine won’t have any time to learn even a little bit about alternative stuff!) There is a land-line, but no interet access. I’m at the Sneem Community Resource center writing this. And, KAT doesn’t even have a working shower for us at the moment, as the water has been re-routed to the festival fields! No one has had a shower for a week or so! Luckily it is not that hot, or we’d all be stinking big time. This weekend they had their third-annual music and beer festival. Everything I’ve done since I arrived has been working towards doing stuff for the festival, lots of setup like constructing toilets, tents, tarp coverings, kitchen work, etc. And I can only imagine now all I will be doing by the time I leave will be festival take down. I’m not all to happy about it, as it is definitely NOT what I hope to experience on a farm. The festival was mildly fun, though, despite constant rain, and there was a little bit of good music and it was a good time working in the kitchen and serving food to the festival goers. I’ll write more on KAT later, but I might try to change my plans and limit my time there, as it’s not the best use of my limited remaining travel time! There’s nothing wrong with KAT, really, it’s a great place and if I was at a different point in my life and travels, I’d probably enjoy it immensly …

That’s it for now. Oh, yeah - Ireland is beautiful! (But wet wet wet.)