A quick rinse and a five minute steep (no lecturing Tea Friends, I’m getting over the stomach flu – oh yeah, and this is normal for me).
Watching Leap Year, a movie (supposedly) about a woman going to Ireland on Feb 29th to propose to her boyfriend, because he’s got to accept. Old Irish folklore, supposedly.
So, I want to love this movie right from the start. Obviously, whomever wrote it has never been to Ireland, or Dingle – one of my favorite places on this planet. How do you fly to Dublin from Boston, end up in Wales because of a horrible storm (plausible, sort of), and then TAKE A BOAT to CORK, which gets diverted to DINGLE?! Seriously. Then, of course, the shore she washes up upon cannot on any planet be Dingle, or Ireland… until the shot pans, and then, I believe it, sort of, kind of. The writing however, takes me right back to Dingle, and all the oddities of a super small Irish town – including the way people call each other names (eediot, crackpaught), the pace of life, that’s it’s almost all men you encounter, that the landscape stuns beyond words, that North American’s preoccupation with labels and formalities means little elsewhere.
Gosh, I miss Dingle. Funny, considering I was deathly ill there, too… went for a walk, got stuck in a storm and nearly swept out to sea, ended up staying a week instead of a few days just to recover.
Thanks to OMGsrsly for sharing some of this with me! “May the rowd rise up ta meet cha”.
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That is a cute movie
“Always kiss like it’s the first time, and the last time”. Holy moly, my fellow Italians showed us how! I so wish this movie was accurate geographically, it keeps throwing me off and taking me out of the story.
I’ve never been to Ireland, so that wasn’t a concern for me.
I had to laugh at that too. You’d have to miss the Ivergh Peninsula first and Dingle has a nice neat harbour. ( It is a fishing village after all). I’m pretty sure the beach the have her dropped off on is Inch beach made famous in several movies such as Far and Away. It is on the Dingle Peninsula but not really an easy walking distance. That part of the movie always bothers me but I still like watching it for the memories it brings back to me as well.
I’m a Leap Year baby. :-)
Oh, fun. I remember when my brother was turning four, one of the teacher’s assistant’s at his preschool was having her fourth actual birthday. We all thought that was really cool.
I like this one. I still have some and I’m just leave it alone so I can treat myself on days that I need it.
That is a cute movie
“Always kiss like it’s the first time, and the last time”. Holy moly, my fellow Italians showed us how! I so wish this movie was accurate geographically, it keeps throwing me off and taking me out of the story.
I’ve never been to Ireland, so that wasn’t a concern for me.
I had to laugh at that too. You’d have to miss the Ivergh Peninsula first and Dingle has a nice neat harbour. ( It is a fishing village after all). I’m pretty sure the beach the have her dropped off on is Inch beach made famous in several movies such as Far and Away. It is on the Dingle Peninsula but not really an easy walking distance. That part of the movie always bothers me but I still like watching it for the memories it brings back to me as well.
I’m a Leap Year baby. :-)
Oh, fun. I remember when my brother was turning four, one of the teacher’s assistant’s at his preschool was having her fourth actual birthday. We all thought that was really cool.
I like this one. I still have some and I’m just leave it alone so I can treat myself on days that I need it.