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Winning is Sweet

No diary entry yesterday. No time. Having travelled to Tralee on Friday, I was on the road again by 7.30am yesterday to drive to Dingle . This is a beautiful road, but one of my landmarks is a herd of Belted Galloway cattle. The first time that I drove this road on my own & it must be 5 years ago now, I saw them. They were so unusual & indeed still are, that they become one of my milestones along the road. Fewer of them this year I think but in a landscape containing white woolly sheet & black, red, cream or beige cattle, they're a lovely contrast. Dingle Food Festival was as always an amazing place to be at 8-8.30am when the streets are so quiet apart from cars & vans manoeuvring & absolutely dozens of people setting up stalls to entice all-comers. I saw it all at this stage but never returned to so many of the stalls. Then there was the Taste Trail with each venue having different offerings and you just never knew who you might meet. I'...