“Walking is a man’s best medicine.”
Hippocrates
The Lough Chonaill Railway Walk is just over a mile from my home, and covers 1.1 km of the route which The Lough Swilly Railway Company used to transport fish and other goods from the village of Burtonport to the city of Derry, from 1903 to 1940.
The shores of Lough Chonaill
Being a watery Piscean, I love walking alongside water, and this walk certainly lifted my spirits with an abundance of beautiful subjects to photograph.
Shadows on the Water
Abstract Patterns
Rock Formations
Gorse Flowering along the Path
The Far End of the Lough
The Journey Back
The Lough Chonaill Railway Walk is just one of many walking initiatives in Donegal. It is well worth paying it a visit.
So happy and thankful to read your recovery has moved to the point that you can resume your morning walks. I know how much I miss my morning walks when illness stops me.
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Thank you Bernadette. It was like winning the lottery!
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Reblogged this on Haddon Musings.
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Thank you. I shall pop over soon. I am giving my blog a revamp at the moment…
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Glad to hear you’re back on the road! Love the photos, love gorse – we used to have some by the gate but had to take it out as it bring about an asthma attack in my daughter when she came home from school. It reminded me of my childhood home near the river where lots of gorse bushes grew. Such a beautiful bright yellow.
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Thank you. You are kind. Gorse lifts my spirits with its lovely scent and colour.
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Beautiful place! Glad you are feeling better.
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Lovely pictures Brigid I can almost feel the fresh air
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Thanks Gina. It is just so great to be able to get outside again!
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So happy to read that you are back on your walks and this one is just so breathtaking, I am a watery Piscean too, so no wonder all the scenery just called out to me. Really so beautiful, especially the pathways, I really loved looking at your photographs and could actually imagine myself there with you as you told me about the lovely things along the way. Be blessed sweetie!
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Oh you are so kind. I love that you are a Piscean too! Taking photographs is so easy with a digital camera and I can edit them too…
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Brigid – your photos are uplifting…glad to hear your walk was as well.
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Hi Jeanne. Many thanks. Unfortunately I am losing the link to your blog again. I have tried all ways to leave a comment. 🤔
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Brigid – So sorry…I’m not sure what the problem is.
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I do not know either Jeanne. I can get onto your site for a few seconds and then it disappears.
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Wonderful photos! Lovely surroundings for a walk.
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Thank you. I feel very blessed.
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Beautiful photos snd happy the weather is mild and you are able to get out amd walk. We have hard frost the last few days in my surb of london.. not nice at all in the minuses…
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Hopefully spring will be here for us all soon Bella. 😊
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So beautiful! The best therapy of all. Just you, the sky, the moon, and the stars. The best connection of all. 🙂 🙂
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😊😊😊
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Another fellow Piscean so enamored by your photos! You are so lucky to live in such a beautiful place.
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Thank you. I really appreciate your feedback. Pisceans rock!
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You are so welcome!🐡🐠🐟💕💕
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Looks like such a tranquil place Brigid. You live in such a beautiful area of the world! thanks for letting us come along… hugs friend!
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Thanks Rhonda. I hope to do more of this type of post. Going out with my camera again today. Hugs to you and yours too.😊
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Happy hiking Brigid!! We’re off to a radio program taped in a beautiful old theater nearer to Los Angeles– got each other the tickets for Christmas gifts so I’m excited!! Happy hiking– hope its a beautiful day there. Blessings. xox
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Have a lovely time. Just back from hike and sun shone all around us. X
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Sound perfect Brigid!! Pictures soon??? xox
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Yes. This week. How was your radio show?
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It was great– some cute comedy pieces and lots of folk/blue grass music. And a real enthusiastic audience who listen to the show every week. (and it was near my favorite bookstore– so we stopped in there for about an hour). Waiting to see you new photos… hugs Brigid!!
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Glad you had such a lovely day. My pictures are up now…
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Hey Brigid!! Went and took a look at them! Love the pathway ahead picture… xox
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Beautiful imagery to remind us we have so much to be thankful
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Many thanks. Yes, there is so much beauty out there. Blessings.
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Thank you for sharing your very lovely walk, I feel like I was walking with you! Also glad to read that you are out and about again.
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Thank you. I have another one lined up for this week! I am so happy to be getting outside…
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I’m looking forward to reading more, I love reading about your walks!
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Thank you so much.😊
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Thank you for sharing these beautiful photo’s of your homeland.
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My pleasure Barbara. Have a great week😊
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What a wonderfully inspiring part of the world you live in Brigid… to be so close to such a wonderful walk must be exhilarating and I’m so glad you’re starting to feel well enough to enjoy it once more.. xx Love the photo’s too!
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I am just so pleased to be outside again. I got back to aqua aerobics on Friday and that was another boost. Happy days!
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Good for you Brigid.. I’ve set myself a goal to do some form of exercise every day this week as I’ve become a couch potato.. so I’m just off for a walk (not far and certainly not in such beautiful surroundings as you have so close by.. I’m jealous!) x
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Enjoy😊
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Thanks Brigid.. x
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Great photos. Keep enjoying your walks.
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Will do😊
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I can feel the peace and tranquillity 🌹
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Thank you Elaine. It is a lovely place to walk. x
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P.S. your new site looks AMAZING! Really good x
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Thank you. I gave it a wee revamp. It is nice to change the theme now and again. x
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I change mine all the time lol. 🌹
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Such a beautiful and peaceful place you live Brigid, awesome. Lovely pictures of the beauty that is surrounding and so nice to be walking and walking. Thanks for the awesome share.
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Thank you Kamal. I just had a dear friend visiting from Scotland and we enjoyed a bit of down time. The sun is shining here so hope to get out on more walks.
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Welcome Brigid. Yes and so nice to be on walks with the sun shining all around.
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Lovely post Brigid, maybe one day.
Not really had much tim to read your book bug the lovely paperback version is now at the side of my bed. Hope fully this will be the carrot to encourage me to have that earlier before bed wind down time and READ.
One of the similarities in your story is how you were expected to carry on & perform at school after your mother’s death. In my situation it was mum’s sudden illness and later dad’s. I don’t think the convent ever knew it being a large town grammar school 8 miles from my home village.
My dad visited on his Saturday day off catching two buses & our neighbour kept an eye on my younger brother and I. Children visiting for 11 weeks was out of the question in 1967, early week’s may not have been a bad thing in later weeks would have helped.
I will write that book Brigid! Thanks 🌻
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Thank you Margaret. I am so glad expectations are different now. It was a lot for myself and my sisters to carry. Look forward to reading your memoir Margaret. Go for it.
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These photos are gorgeous, Brigid. You are definitely surrounded by beauty. I would love to walk along that path! 🌺
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Thank you Jennifer. It really is a lovely place to live and I feel very blessed.
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My daughter did a research project in high school that required lots of traipsing around in nature. It was more desert than this but has become one of my beloved memories. All that time in this wonderful natural world.
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These are special memories Jacqui. I loved doing Nature projects in school. We learned all the names of wild flowers and trees…
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Love the photos, Brigid. You live in a lovely area! I need to get out and walk more- my hips would thank me 🙂
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Thank you Jacqui. I need to get out walking more too. The sun is out and I have no excuse!
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Looks like a beautiful walk!
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It is indeed and it is well walked.
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That is a lot of walking options, all very beautiful location.
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Thank you Bella. I have 10 more walking posts scheduled to inspire others to get outside.
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Wow… 10 more. I dont walk enough these days. I joke i am super glued to my chair when i work. I know it is not good.
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They are old posts but I must write some new ones Bella.
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Okay. 😊
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Walking is the best for a healthy mind, body and soul IMHO. You are lucky to have so many path options. Enjoy!
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Thank you Laura. There has been a big push here to promote walking and we have a number of walking festivals.
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I like the idea of a walking festival!
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Thoroughly enjoying these virtual walks with you Brigid! 😀
Blessings,
Jennifer
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Thank you Jennifer. I thought it might spur others on to walk now the weather is good.
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I am enjoying this. Walking is indeed the best medicine 💖
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Thank you. I wanted to share some of these older posts as they often get missed. x
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as beautiful as can be=just stunning.
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Thank you Michele. Happy weekend.
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