Go with the flow, live the Gulf Stream dream

Tommy Barker is entranced by this most verdant estate on the Kerry coast.

“GIVE a Dutchman two square metres, and he’ll garden it”, says Peter Martius, who along with his wife and fellow Dutch national Roely acquired almost 20 Kerry acres in 1993, and proceeded to tame them.

Land near the shoreline here at Tahilla is fertile, and growth is abetted by the warming influence of the Gulf Stream.