Ireland: luxury accommodations

They're a little old. OK, many many centuries old. But they're well-constructed. And well-ventilated. Cozy, let's call them.

Dry-stone construction. Still standing, snugly, after soooo many years.

In communities, built by early people huddling along the cliffs of Dingle.

All connected by walls for protection from invaders. And from that wind off the sea.

 From the inside, you get a good idea of how fragile human existence was,
despite the protection of these thick walls.

But that view. That view must have been what made it all worth it.

I think this modern-day girl with ever-stronger hermit tendencies could get a lot of thinking and meditating done in a little stone hut like that. Just give me a couple of sheep skins to sleep on, a good wool sweater and scarf and hat, a little fire to heat soup and tea, and let the dreaming commence.