HOTELS AND OTHERWISE 125 



Another beautiful spot, with lovely scenery, sea 

 and lakes, but three days of it sent me away. 

 For fishing I have been to the prettiest hotel in 

 Ireland, Recess. 



Pretty is scarcely the word to describe the gabled 

 home standing in its garden full of flowers, with 

 Glendalough rippling grey before the v^dndows 

 and the Connemara Hills flinging themselves up 

 against the sky. 



I say purposely " home " because there is a 

 charm as of home in its bright cheeriness and 

 quiet comfort. No tinned vegetables and no 

 " chief," but a happy fishing party with often no 

 room for the many who want to spend only a 

 night or two there. The best fishing in Ireland is 

 close to it. Expensive, as aU good things are, but 

 we had many splendid days on the hotel lakes, 

 especially on the big one we Uked best — Oned. 



My friend, Miss McCarthy, makes Recess a truly 

 happy place to go. 



I have spent a pleasant week too at Leenane, 

 where the hotel crouches at the foot of great hills, 

 with the calm waters of the big Killary lapping 

 almost to its door, and where nothing seems to be 

 a trouble for a visitor. The wonderful drive by 

 the sea to Westport is from Leenane. 



Two girl friends of mine once stayed at a tiny 

 hotel in Connemara, years ago. It was plain, but 

 clean, the only other visitor a soldier fishing there. 



They slept in one room, and in the morning 



