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Sat 01 Jan 2011Lismore's purple patch
MAGAN'S WORLD:MANCHÁN MAGAN'Stales of a travel addict
THE HIGHLIGHT of any journey to Lismore is the rich mantel of rhododendron that covers the mountains in an alien, eye-popping display of hand-knotted purple carpet. It dazzles and disorientates the mind. It’s Day of the Triffidsterritory – an intensity of colour and texture that is disturbing – as if the area’s famous witch, Petticoats Loose, has unloosed her eponymous garment.
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