21.08.11 – Freewheeling through life!

First of all big news we received a really pleasant surprise in the post the other day, sadly it was not a cheque for a million Euro but a certificate from Tripadvisor giving us a five star rating and a certificate of excellence, relatively small things like this mean such a lot to us and so for all of you that voted a huge thank you – we really owe it to you! I’am writing this as I often do at Caherconnoll and today is a big day in the Burren in that the Sky ride bike race is taking place, so far I have been totally untroubled by it and I have to say the organization of the event seems to be very good, we were all well warned of closures in advance and, touch wood, all is going fairly to plan. I cannot believe that we are already coming to the end of August, normally at this time we would be thinking of holidays for the winter but there is so much going on behind the scenes here for next year that we are not really sure what will be happening, as usual Thailand is beckoning but its looking a long way away at the moment! For all time is flying by I have to admit our stress levels are not too stable, as you will gather there is a lot going on in our world and whilst I think we are getting our share of business the problem still remains that on quiet days we are still loosing some passengers to our opposition and so we both end up working for nothing which just proves the point that there is not really enough business to go around, what is so heartening though is that we seem to be getting the bulk of the business despite being slightly more expensive and we think that has a lot to do with word of mouth and sites like Tripadvisor, without sounding too cocky it has taken 14 years to gain a reputation like ours and whilst we are by no means perfect we are a lot closer than some, check out Tripadvisor and you will see what I mean!