Ballymaloe cooking school

All is well, the weather changed last night and we where rocked to sleep by a gale force wind 8 in  Bantry Bay on the West coast of Ireland. 
Our visit to Ballymaloe cooking school was fantastic. It is 25 years since I was last there and the way the school and grounds have expanded in the time is incredible but then with acres of farmland at ones disposal, and a large creative family, they have four children and innumerable grand children all living within 10 minutes of Ballymaloe, that is maybe not to difficult. That is also not including Rory, Darinas' brother who started the school with her in 1983 on her husband Tim's farm, and has a large family too.
The roots of their success are passion for cooking and teaching about ingredients and food and their  absolute dedication. Not only for themselves but for Ireland and the whole environment.. 
The school is famous throughout the world, as it well deserves to be.   
You must look it up to see for yourselves. 
The run 3 12 week cooing courses a year with 60 pupils at a time, t
Most of them redide there in the cottages on the far