![]() ![]() It's a most eccentric, and entertaining read. I read Hawks' recent book Round Ireland with a fridge just before I a recent trip to Ireland myself. She writes descriptively, historically, pensively, he comically, lively and entertainingly. She stayed at hostels, he avoided them like plague. She stuck faithfully to the coast, including Northern Ireland, he took shortcuts and skipped the Troubles. ![]() Rosita went clockwise, Tony counter clockwise. They both wrote a book about the experience, but there the similarity ends. Both had the most wonderful experiences, the source of memories they'll treasure a life long. Some seven or eight years later Tony Hawks hitch-hiked around the coast of Ireland. In 1990 Rosita Boland, hitch-hiked around the coast of Ireland. Chalk and Cheese: Two Views of Ireland. ![]()
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