OT: Home again, home again, jiggity-jig! LONG

Tia Mary · 2010-06-22T19:59:24+00:00

Hi Guys, Well, I'm home from the Ireland - Scotland trip and dead tired. We had a lovely time and I got to see loads of new stuff and well remembered stuff from our Ireland trip eight years ago. Had nice weather, all things considered. A bit cold and damp when we got to Co. Donegal but that's to be expected and we had brought a sweater for those days. We saw lots and lots of dry stacked stone walls and fields of grazing sheep, of course and loved seeing all of it. Poor DH did not have fun driving on the other side of the road while in Ireland. He was so exhausted by the end of the day that he decided it was time to join the "old folks" and take bus tours! Of course, we were touring all over Ireland -- from Dublin, through Waterford then a visit to Bunratty Castle, over to Limerick then on to Galway up to Belleek and finally to Dunfanaghy (way at the northernmost coast of Co. Donegal)then back to Dublin -- that we really did need to have a car. I bought loads of woolen stuff and tacky tourist-y stuff and was a great boost to the Irish economy, I'm sure. It was while we were in Dunfanaghy that DH realized the digital camera was not working properly -- some photos were OK and then some were all wonky and he had no idea why! We had to take videos from then on. Saw absolutely NOTHING even remotely related to needlework except for yarns which I bought several skeins of. Regardless, we had a great time but were quite glad to return the rental car and hie off to Scotland. Scotland was a surprise -- almost cloudless the whole time!!! Now it never got horribly warm -- stayed in the mid 70's F on the warmest days but with all that direct sun (I DO NOT do well in direct sun) I was quite happy to get back to the air conditioned hotel room! Of course, the locals were in "hog heaven" laying about on any available patch of grass or empty bench with limbs exposed, just soaking up the sunshine :-). They looked at MOI with my visor and sunglasses like I was...