Switching off from it all in County Kerry

I LEFT the cyber world with all its virtual distractions and came back down to Earth — not with a crash, but with a gentle soft landing — at Carrig Country House Hotel, off the Ring of Kerry.

I had come equipped with my iPad and iPhone, you know (as well as himself), for my weekend away. But the spectacular beauty of the location overlooking Caragh Lake and the warm welcoming engagement of the owners, Frank and Mary Slattery, teased me back to the real pleasures, of the real world.

That, and the on/off Wifi cover; it’s as if the natural landscape defiantly resisted allowing an uninterrupted ‘hotline’ to cyberspace — to get me to stop, breathe, and ground myself between the earth, sky, water and mountains.