Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Full House


We had a full house this weekend and we got a welcome opportunity to get to know J's niece which was great for us all. A couple of early nights this week and we should recover nicely in time for our trip to Glasgow this weekend. Because of a rescheduled flight, our flight home on Sunday is now at 7am. Before this change it was 9pm and I was promised a trip to Ikea on Sunday. Do you think someone would go as far as to organise this flight change so they wouldn't have to go to Ikea??

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Schmap Scotland

Somebody out there somewhere liked one of my photos of the Burrell Collection in Glasgow and they've included it in the latest online edition of Schmap guide to Scotland. Needless to say I am delighted. Lugging that camera around may just pay off yet.

Friday, March 21, 2008

Big birthday cake


Them chunks there on that there cake be chunks of Mars Bar! Who do you think bought the cake? All that cake for just the two of us - no problem.

Monday, March 17, 2008

Kinnitty, Co Offaly

This long weekend took us to Kinnitty in Co Offaly. A county neither of us had visited before. Kinnitty village has the usual to offer - a church, a small shop and 3 pubs. We visited the church and the shop and stayed out of the pubs for a change. We were staying in the fabulous Kinnitty Castle just outside the village and it was a great weekend. The castle is now a 37 room hotel and it was like nothing I have stayed in before, each room is different and I think we lucked out in our room as it was very unusual - I've taken photos below. The bathroom was in one of the turrets of the castle so it was round in shape and the bath was bang in the middle - J thought he had died and gone to heaven when he saw it. The bar has a 24 hour bar and they had trad music in one of the bars on both nights over the weekend. I thought this may have just being for St Patrick but they say it's like that every weekend. The bar last night was buzzing, starting off with just one musician and in no time at all there were 6 people with instruments entertaining us.


The story goes that this castle is haunted and as I downloaded the photos today I swear I could see something strange in one of them, J thinks I'm gone mad but I'm really convinced - can anyone see anything odd about the photo taken in our bedroom over the weekend?