To match today's weather, kind of. It's gloomy here today. This picture was taken in Killarney, I believe near a spot called Ladies' View (where Queen Victoria and her ladies-in-waiting stopped to take in the view on a visit in 1861). That yellow patch? The only sun we saw that day. The rest of the time was rainy and misty, and then here's this one little patch of sunlight up on a hillside. Not far from this view was Muckross House, where Queen Victoria stayed on her visit. If our tour guide was right, the family prepared for six years for her visit, including building a fire escape on to her room. The Queen even brought her own fire-fighting engines with her. (Apparently there was a childhood accident and she ended up with a lifelong fear of fire.) But after six years of preparation, her visit lasted two days, folks. Oh my.
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