Cross Garden B&B Drogheda

... he checked out all that he could.

While looking at my guidebook, I noticed that there is a pub called McHugh’s in Drogheda, and I asked John to take me there so I could get a picture. McHugh was my great-great-grandfather’s name, and it meant a lot just to see it. The pub didn’t seem to be in the best of neighborhoods, so we didn’t go in after John took the picture.

Back at the b&b, we had tea and cookies in our ...

... After Mass we walked down a side street to the Boiled Onion for dinner. It’s quite a nice place, and we were able to take advantage of the early bird dinner that included two courses and a bottle of wine. Our wine was a frascati, which brought back memories of the trip we took to France and Italy two years ago. The wine was served by a young man who asked if we had been to Newgrange. When we told him we plan to go tomorrow, he said he’d look for us. He would be a tour ...

... of the keep. At the entrance we asked about any photos they had of the Braveheart set and were given a folder of photos to look over. It was interesting to see which parts of the crumbling walls had been used and where they'd built on to. After dropping Nicki off at the airport, Aimee and I check into the Castleknock Travelodge. We'd decided to stay in a hotel to give us the chance to clean out the van properly. We walked out from the hotel in search ...

... to Shannon in 65 minutes flat. Traded the car easily (thank you, Hertz) and were on our way smoothly. Dropped Terry and Marianne at the Athenry place to rest and hightailed it east. Stopped in Ballinasloe to see if magically our stuff was recovered. No such luck. And reached the Embassy in Dublin (closed all weekend) only to learn passports were only replaced between 8 & 11. But they said ...

... at one end of the park and Susan and I at the other right up high (in the heavens) good view though. I really enjoyed it, as it was my first time at a match, even though we got cuffed. We met up with Michael who was half p****d by this time! We went for a meal Michael got his second wind and we went to find some live ...

... will kindly do when she returns to Cape Town this week. It was back to Chill 'n Surf for our penultimate white bread roll lunch (!) and then we had a little party with the kids for the afternoon. It was really sweet - they brought in a CD player specially and everyone, including the crèche teachers, danced around with the kids for a while. We took lots of photos, allowed the kids take lots of photos and had some speeches. It was very emotional to be ...

I have never "blogged" before so I am going to try this out. I am hoping my friends and family will like this more than my mass emails and links to my pictures on facebook. I am hoping you can just save this link to your favorites and come view what I have been up to whenever you get a chance. It seems hard to believe that I have already been in Dublin for 6 weeks. I have done so much already and still have much planned for the future. I spend ...

Woke up and started packing,once that was done we gave the bags to the lads to bring to a hostel they were going to get, more about that later. drove the camper van back to the place, and left it back, yer one reckoned it was 100 quid cos it was too messy, so we argued for a while and then said **** it, and paid. went for a ****** pizza, then got the train back into the city. the only HOTEL the lads could find was 47 euros ...

... we had no chance. There was one repetative engraving, three interlocking circles. The guide gave us a couple different stories, and that's when it hit me, they were all on drugs. How the **** do they see these things !!! And with that, our tour of the two sites was over. If we did go back, we would catch the bus out there, but walk back. We didn't have enough time to take it in. Oh well, you learn from your mistakes !!! Dowth Around five minutes drive ...

Well, the weather has been great this week, until the weekend rolled around that is...so much for my run of luck with Murphy and his weather machine. Anyway, work was the same as always and I have decided to start tallying up my daily consumption of Google food. This comes as a result of, much to Ryan's delight, the difficulty I am experiencing in shaving my newly acquired double-chin! Now to backtrack and try and justify why I consume at least ...