He shakes his head. The wood there's from an unknown shipwreck. There is a wooden model, though, of Discovery, while Scott and Shackleton stare out from the ice in the black and white photographs that adorn the wall. On the way back to the airport, I stop at Inch strand. This is the beach where they filmed Ryan's Daughter in the 60s.
Atlantic rollers pound a band of pale sand.
The mountains of the famed Ring of Kerry hover in the distance. I leaf through a well-thumbed copy of Brian Friel's play Philadelphia, Here I Come and resolve to immerse myself in Irish literature. Part of my play is set in Ireland after the Great War, when Tom Crean returned home to County Kerry. Friday 30 March Back home, I pop into my local bookshop to pick up a copy of the classic The Worst Journey in the World written by Apsley Cherry-Garrard, another main character in my play. The bookseller tells me an anecdote.