Cara O'Driscoll at Svaneke, Bornholm, Denmark: Though I am Irish I feel quite at home here
It is winter now; we had frost again last night here on Bornholm, a Danish island in the middle of the Baltic Sea.
Though I am Irish I feel quite at home here. The island is the same as west Cork in many ways: granite cliffs, fishing industry, farming, arty with tourism. My children’s grandad was born and raised on the island, so just like in west Cork, we are related to half the country.
My journey to eventually end up here began with a simple conversation with a friend in the late 1980s. I lived in London after graduating from University College Dublin with a mechanical engineering degree.
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