Lange habe ich heute Morgen nach Bilder vom Inis Mor Airport gesucht und das gefunden:


Peggy Hernon is a member of the Ground Operations staff at Inis Mor Airport. She was born in the Bronx in New York, attended NYU and worked on Wallstreet for 18 years. She moved over to Inis Mor in 1990 where she married Micheal Hernon, Inis Mor Airport Manager and has been living on the island ever since.
Zitat aus: http://www.aerarannislands.ie/peggy.html

Besonders gut hat mir das gefallen!
The Salvage Instinct
By Peggy Hernon

If you come to live on Inis Mór, you’ll know you’ve become an islander when you can’t throw anything in the bin without deliberation. An islander looks at a decrepit bicycle or a broken motor and he doesn’t see junk; he sees the good parts remaining that just might keep some other thing working in a pinch. Instead of the bin, it goes to the shed to join the other bits and bobs that might come in handy. The salvage instinct is a fundamental response to being surrounded by sea and separated from mainland supply. Hoarding was a necessary island practise of countless generations for long centuries when bringing goods from the mainland out to Aran was a struggle at best, and usually took ages. When something important broke down, until the time it could be replaced, it was fixed by Aran ingenuity and something from the bits and bobs in the shed. Just this past Christmas, the VHF radio in the airport bus broke down and the bus driver got it working again with parts from an old radio he had in his store room. Word got around and islanders felt good about their bulging sheds. It didn’t matter that most of them now contact the bus driver on his mobile phone and vice versa. Old habits die hard.
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