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Back from Ireland
Back home, rested and refreshed, after six days (including travelling). A cheap flight from Manchester to Waterford with the very excellent Aer Arann and my old friend M to collect me from the airport. Easy!
It didn't even rain too badly - at least not on the days when we wanted to do something - which frankly wasn't the main point of the exercise. I really just wanted a few days to rest, read, write and visit. Part of the exercise was to see the house M and![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
t_op have been doing up for years now that part of it is reaching the habitable stage. I've been telling them for years that I wouldn't visit until they had a real bathroom - and now they have - so there I was. (And a very fine bathroom it is.)
So apart from talking, eating, writing, talking some more, reading and watching DVDs in the evening, we managed a trip to Kilkenny and a tour round the castle which has medieval foundations, but lost one of its four walls to Cromwell (hence the U-shape to the main buildings). There are also much later additions. I like castles. This was certainly more extensive than I expected.
At least part of every day was spent writing - though I can't say I cracked on as fast as I expected to do. I had plenty of distractions - including the view over the top of my laptop screen across the yard (building work in evidence) and into the orchard (fabulous buddleia) and across the valley.
And there were visitors, thankfully not the bats that I had been warned about (I think my snoring kept them away at night) but this little chap came to visit during the day.
We wandered down to Inistioge and this is the 'must click' tourist pic of the many arched bridge from the gardens at Woodstock.
More tomorrow. I haven't downloaded my pics of Kells Abbey yet.
(Edited for feral apostrophe)
It didn't even rain too badly - at least not on the days when we wanted to do something - which frankly wasn't the main point of the exercise. I really just wanted a few days to rest, read, write and visit. Part of the exercise was to see the house M and
t_op have been doing up for years now that part of it is reaching the habitable stage. I've been telling them for years that I wouldn't visit until they had a real bathroom - and now they have - so there I was. (And a very fine bathroom it is.)So apart from talking, eating, writing, talking some more, reading and watching DVDs in the evening, we managed a trip to Kilkenny and a tour round the castle which has medieval foundations, but lost one of its four walls to Cromwell (hence the U-shape to the main buildings). There are also much later additions. I like castles. This was certainly more extensive than I expected.
At least part of every day was spent writing - though I can't say I cracked on as fast as I expected to do. I had plenty of distractions - including the view over the top of my laptop screen across the yard (building work in evidence) and into the orchard (fabulous buddleia) and across the valley.
And there were visitors, thankfully not the bats that I had been warned about (I think my snoring kept them away at night) but this little chap came to visit during the day.
We wandered down to Inistioge and this is the 'must click' tourist pic of the many arched bridge from the gardens at Woodstock.
More tomorrow. I haven't downloaded my pics of Kells Abbey yet.
(Edited for feral apostrophe)