South Aran

You could go to Enda and Maria Conneely’s quietly inspiring guesthouse and restaurant just to stay and eat, and to enjoy the charm of this singular island, and to revel in Enda’s terrific cooking. That would be pretty perfect, to tell the truth.
Or you could do a powerboat course, or learn about macrobiotics, or do some pilates. And that would be pretty perfect, to tell the truth.
You could also do the ‘Transformation Game’, a life coaching course they teach. But, to tell you the absolute truth, you only need to come to the island and to stay and eat with these amazing people to undergo transformation in your life. Enda and Maria are holistic people, they are Zen, quietly spiritual, and genuinely inspiring in the most modest way. They put us in mind of the great aphorism from Shunryu Suzuki’s book, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind: “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are few.” South Aran offers many possibilities, all sublime.