Our new and bigger group left Dublin Airport on Thursday 12th June at approx 11.30am. We picked up our 3 cars, debated who would travel in which car, and ventured out onto the roads of Dublin. Scott was in the lead with Tom Tom (our GPS navigations system) and with Gerard at the healm of one car and me the other, off we went.
We quickly discovered that keeping a convoy of 3 cars together through busy traffic would be a difficult task and thus decided that light on would help - and it did - to be sure, to be sure!
Our first destination was Tullow in County Carlow. Our mothers great friend Pat Guinan had a sister a nun who was currently in Tullow so we had organised to make that our first stop and she had organised accommodation for us.
The traffic was busy, the roadworks numerous, but once out of Dublin, the scenary and the green of the paddocks, beautiful.
Generally, the roads are slow in Ireland and it seems to take a long time to travel anywhere. What looked on a map like a quick trip from Dublin to Tullow took us about 2 hours, and for Dad and Kevin especiallly, who had just arrived from Australia after at least 26 hours travelling, it was a long drive. Felicity and Gerard had come from Manchester that morning, having travelled there from St Petersbourgh.
A few bottles of Coke and some pastries were in order at the local shops before we found our accommodation and had an enjoyable coffee and biscuit with Sister Clare (from Caufield South) at the convent in Tullow.
We were luckily all able to squeeze into a B&B on the outskirst of the town and the children very much enjoyed the large backyard, trampoline and other children of the house to play outside before we ventured out for our first Irish Pub and enjoyed dinner together, and a birthday cake for William.
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