Improve your English in an enjoyable way: through lessons, conversation, Celtic and archaeological walks, films, stories, lectures and discussions with people from the Island. (level of English: +/- intermediate) English instructor: Ursula Murray

1.Tag: Welcome at meeting point in Galway: 16.00, boattrip to Inishmore, transfer to accommodation and dinner.

2.Tag: Morning: Information about the Island, programme, etc., afternoon: walking the low road (seals, early monastic sites, holy wells and standing stones) with Ursula (2hrs), evening: free time.

3.Tag: Morning: lessons: grammar and conversation (2 1/2 hrs), afternoon: free time, evening: meeting in Maggie's Sweater Shop: about old times and the history of the Aran Jumpers.

4.Tag: Morning: lessons, afternoon: "Walking the Celtic Way" (rituals and holy places) with Dara O Maoildhia, visit "Poll na bPéist" (the wormhole) and the prehistoric fort "Dun Aonghasa" (2-3 hrs), evening: visit my neighbour, the fisher-man and basket maker Vincent Mc Cearán.

5.Tag: Morning: lessons, afternoon: free time, evening: the art of traditional singing on the Island in the past and in the present with the renowned Sean-nós Singer Treasa Ní Mhiolláin, learn a song in English or Irish.

6.Tag: Morning: lessons, afternoon: "The Man of Aran", the film and the making of the film, evening: free time.

7.Tag: Morning: lessons, afternoon: walk to "Dún Dubh Chathair" and the soft sand dunes and wide beaches of Kileany (2-3 hrs), visit the museum in Kilronan, time for shopping, evening: music "Session" in the local Pub.

8.Tag: 12.00 boat to Galway, transfer to B+B, Galway tour with Kim and shopping time, evening: experience a traditional music "Session" in one of Galway's old Pub's).

9.Tag: Morning: official end of programme in Galway

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" Für uns waren es zwei Ferien auf ein Mal: eine kulturelle und geschichtliche Reise zurück bis in die Bronzezeit und die Gelegenheit den Frieden und die Stille in der wunderschönen Landschaft von Inishmore mit ihren faszinierenden geologischen Formationen zu erleben. Deine einmaligen Programme werden nächstes Jahr sicher ausgebucht sein."

Garry and Joan Wallace, Italien