I hope that you have enjoyed the Fourth of July. It was celebrated at the Castlebar Walks as well, as there are alway Americvan participaants. Yjr Castlebar Four Days Walks are metric. Distances are 10, 20 and 40 km, and there is across country walk of 30 km.
At present I am in Dublin. I have seen that it is not as rosy as I thought in the property business as I thought. For office space the square metre is used very often, but when it is about land and houses the square foot and the acre still rule supreme. As houses are often built in ribbon developments in the countryside, the realtors also give the distance to the nearby city or town: in miles. (This kind of planning will turn Ireland within 20 years into one big monstrous housing estate: its opponents call it bungalow blight, its supporters simply say: 'You can't eat scenery', and so they destroy it.)
I wonder whether the realtors will give distances to towns in kilometres when the speed limits have gone metric.
Butchers are now starting to give prices per kilogram; the price per pound is added.
The large Irish producer of cider, Bulmers, has stopped with its anti-metric ads for cider. They no longer try to convince people that it is a privilege to drink cider not in metric glasses, but in pint glasses.
Han
