On Ireland's green shores, Sept. 2010

(L-r) Erik Bosten, Jolanda Peters, Sophie Schellekens, Rienk Michielsen, Jan Michielsen, Sharon Loughrin, Joel Loughrin, Arnie Loughrin

Thanks (as so often in the past) to our good friend Jan Michielsen of Hoogstraten, Belgium, and of 4 Wheel Drive, for these photos from a recent trip with friends and family members to Northern Ireland, where they visited Arnie and Sharon Loughrin and went to the Open House Festival in Belfast.

Here Jan met Uri Kohen (left), organiser of the annual Westport Folk & Bluegrass Festival in Westport, Co. Mayo, and also enjoyed the show by...

... the Dave Rawlings Machine with Gillian Welch. More photos from the trip can be seen on this Facebook album.