Renewable energy around the world
As I travel around I'm interested in seeing how much renewable energy is used, and how it is implemented.
We are long past the point where we should be burning fossil fuels to get our energy; the damage to our climate and the environment is considerable, and burning fossil fuels is at least a major part of the cause of that damage. There's no way of fixing fossil fuels as a source of our energy – we just need to leave them behind and focus on renewables; although, even solving energy problems is only part of the solution.
It's great to see how much renewable energy is used in some countries – unfortunately my home country, Australia, isn't really up there!
Most of these posts only reference renewable energy incidentally, but there’s something about it in there somewhere!
Our house-sit in Ballycarrigeen Lower, Ireland
I'm in Ireland now; in fact, I've been here for two weeks. I'll have more to say about Scotland soon, but for now it's time to introduce Ireland.
We are house-sitting an 1839 farmhouse in Ballycarrigeen Lower, County Wexford, Republic of Ireland. Our charges this time are a dog, a cat, a rabbit, and four chickens.
Crossing the River Tweed valley
The centre of Melrose is situated on the southern edge of the flood plain of the River Tweed, and our house-sit is on the southern edge of Melrose on hills rising off this flood plain. From this area, in the right spot, you can see right across the valley to the ridge of hills on the other side. While the dominant landscape feature for tens of kilometres around is the Eildon Hills, this ridge is also a beautiful backdrop to many scenes around Melrose.