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Horses, Castles ,Crystal & A Good Old Singalong
... Melbourne cup winner. He's just a star attraction now, but still a big showoff. The stud was all business and our tour guide throughout the stud was a walking encyclopedia of horse racing world wide! I was thinking of my son Luke throughout the whole place - Lukie you would have loved it! We saw sacred springs and an abandoned Abbey (common around these parts I'm finding out fast) & today, our eyes were opened up to the beautiful countryside that ...
Tullamore to Sligo
... before we leave though!
In comparison Noma had a very realxing day. Coffee in town and playing with the kids in the afternoon. Kyle and Matt made a delicious dinner, a chicken stew with some sensational coconut rice. YUMMY!
Tomorrow we are going to take a drive around to see some of the sites.
Anyway it's quite late right now....9.20pm and I need some sleep. Too much fresh air today I think!
Until next time
M, N & H
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It's (not) a long way to Tipperary
25102011 Took the bus from Dublin to Kilkenny today. After I arrived I went for a walk around the city.
26102011 In the morning I went on a walking tour of the city and in the afternoon I went on a tour of the Smithwicks brewery.
27102011 Today I took the train down to Waterford. A ...
Mass and Family get together.
... for ages chatting and only later in the evening when showing the photos to family were we told we had the wrong place!!!!!!!!! Lucky the Garda (Police) did not come and drag the mad tourist and stalkers away!!! And we got drenched in the process of it all!!
We headed back to Ballybrittas via the village lanes and the homing pigeon (AKA CS) found the way home almost getting run down by a hedge trimming tractor on one ...
Catching up
... organized when I pulled out our confirmation to see that sadly, our reservation was for yesterday!!! Imagine my disappointment. I really felt certain that it was scheduled for Wednesday. Fortunately, Nathan was able to re-schedule us for this afternoon so that's good. Nora and I are killing time in an Internet cafe where we can't use our own computer so I cannot post recent stuff to the blog because it's all written down there. Bummer!
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