Brandon House Hotel Health Club And Spa New Ross

... hearing aid) towards me and once he recognised the Gorey March, started tapping along. 'Hmm. Hmm,' he nodded his appreciation in time. 'I can tell you've been practising all right,' he stated when I'd finished, and he leant over and pulled out his own fiddle - older than himself - from under the tv stand. I couldn't decide which was the bigger compliment - the words, or the actions. With no hint of arthritis, but with the ...

... man in the room has to come give you a birthday kiss on the cheek! It was so embarassing, but I have the interesting tale of being kissed my about 15-20 men old enough to be my grandfather. ha Anyways on my birthday I went to classes and David gave me a pretty gold chain because I had broken one my necklaces when I was over here. Then after class the girls helped me get ready and David took me out for a nice supper. It was good to eat ...

... unless you stop because the hedges are huge!! lol

Kilkenny castle was cool.. I think both Amy and I were a bit castled out by this stage.. but it had a huge ground that it over looked, I just wanted to run the whole way down it. But instead I refrained myself and did a cartwheel instead!! The more I got into this trip the more and more I found myself sounding and acting like my father... oh there's a good shot I'll get a picture of that.. can't ...

... before going down to the shop at the bottom of the hill to get out of the wind.

We saw a sign for St. Patrick’s well just beyond the car park, so we walked up to it. It was dry, but we gave it a little time before getting back in the car and driving to the town of Trim.

Trim Castle dominates the landscape as one enters the town. We entered and rather than wait half an hour for a tour, we chose to explore just the grounds. The grounds were quite extensive, and the ...

... room, poured wine and scotch and settled down to watch the ferry crossing.
The next morning we had a wonderful breakfast and a long walk on the soft sandy beach. We walked until we found the fairy rock, (Phil told us a story about the rock so we had to walk there). Jim collected rocks all along the way. I collected pebbles. The wind felt so cold when we turned back to the house. My ears were throbbing ...

... the Hill of Allen (about an hour out of Dublin), but we couldn’t find a way up it, so we went on to the next stop, the Bog of Allen. However, we took a wrong turn, got lost, spent the next hour finding ourselves again, and finally got to the Bog of Allen, only to find that it is closed on weekends. Not a good start, missing 2 out of 2 sights.

However, we drove south for 90 minutes, and finally broke our duck by finding the ...

Arrived in Ireland at 0820 in the morning. Since we were driving the island, we went to pick up our rental car from Enterprise. It was off-site, so we took the shuttle bus there. The car rental was a relatively easy process. I started off driving and it was weird getting used to driving on the opposite side of the road. To get to our first destination, we were thrust right into highway driving ...

... I had never before imagined Ireland as the place to go for a beach holiday, but at that moment all I wanted to do was wade through the water and explore the small cliffs further out towards a grassy headland. It was just a pity that I hadn’t even given a thought to packing my bathers.

We got back in the car and headed inland to Waterford and got some lunch from a supermarket, then hunted around for some time for a picnic area, park or ...

... by the hire car company to get us out of the airport car park coming to a fee of €48, the unclear route signs heading south out of Dublin towards County Wexford leading me to take a slightly convoluted course, the struggle to find a pub still serving food at 9pm in the town of Arklow, and then when we did chance upon one finding out they didn’t have my first, second, third, fourth or fifth choices ...