I visited county Wicklow in Ireland last week in hope of finding some traces of my past during my first ever solo trip there 5O years ago! Nothing much I saw brought back any memories of my past experience. At the age of 24 I remember I was given a room for a night by complete Irish stranger in Dublin! I remember hitching a ride having lost myself and staying in B&B somewhere in County Wicklow with a family of visitors from Belgium.
Fifty years later I found the Emerald Island continues to look green however its green land has been broken up by massive network of highways which are mostly empty ! The food and goods are expensive and the ferries are bigger and modern than the ones I had sailed in before.
Huge amounts of investments by the big tech companies such as Microsoft, Apple , Google and Amazon over 20 years have helped drive the economic growth. Ireland is still a member of E.E.U. which brings in more European travellers than ever before!
Before returning home to England , my last stop was in Dublin. The city is known for its long literary tradition, its culture and I found lots of art etched on the streets of Dublin to make me feel very nostalgic about my whole short trip!
