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March, 2019

Clew Bay, Ireland

Clew Bay is the most spectacular bay in Ireland, a place where land and sea meet and merge together. It has amazing examples of sunken drumlins (elongated hills shaped like whalebacks), formed when glaciers reshaped the landscape in the last ice age. And now the islands have strange shapes and look like fish made out of stone floating in the water. Legend has it that the there are 365 islands in the bay, one for each day of the year. The biggest, Clare Island, is the home to 130 people. Most of the others are uninhabited. John Lennon owned and stayed on Dorinish Island, a remote island in Clew Bay, which he planned to turn into a hideaway retreat and, talking about this small island, Yoko Ono once said: “a place where we thought we could escape stress and spend some time alone together”.

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