Our wander out to Inisbofin
Well hello there fellow Wanderers!!! It has certainly been a while since our last blog post but we're still here! The Easter weekend we decided to take a wander to Galway and do something a little different - we took a trip out to Inishbofin island. Inisbofin translated to English means Island of the White Cow tied to an old folklore story :) "The origins of the island’s initial colonization are still obscure. The most common and basic version relates how two fishermen lost in fog, landed on an enchanted island and lit a fire. The flames broke the spell and the mist lifted to reveal an old woman driving a white cow along a shingle beach, which ran between a lake and the sea. She was observed to strike the cow, whereupon it turned to stone. Another tradition has that the old women and the cow emerge from the lake every seven years or alternatively to forewarn of some impending disaster. The lake in question is Loch Bo Finne (Lake of the White Cow) in West Quarter vil
