we are not in dublin anymore we caught a long and very hot bus to Belfast in the RAIN!! We are off to Giants Causeway tomorrow and the carrick - a - rede bridge in N ireland. The bridge looks scary but I think I will cross it I know the kids are all game. The Youth Hostel we have in N Ireland is so much better than the one in Dublin it is clean and has very nice facilities, a cafe, clean linen and the only drawback is shared toilet and showers- oh well. We are of...

Well we finally got here to Dublin. The Ryan air flight was delayed by an hour so that really ticked us off as we could have had anothr 1hours sleep and we need it, especially Hats who is jet lagged. The airport at Bournemouth is tiny and hasn't changed a bit since my last visit to it 20 years ago. The flight wsa non eventful and they charge you for absolutely everything- even going to the restrooms( joking!!) We got to Dublin via the airport link bus really chea...

Today it was nothing but running round getting Euros and money for the kids to spend. Harriet arrived at about 2pm after along journey, they are all hyper now they are together!1 The rain is still with us- I can't believe that the sky can hold so much water!! we are expecting more showers tonight and many people in North yorkshire have still got flood alerts, one reservoir is on the verge of breaking. Harriet has been rearranging her Nans dolls house furniture an...

today was wet, wet wet, but we managed to get to Gosport on the South Coast and see the Gosport Spinnaker Tower. 300 fett high and a great view from the top to the Isle of Wight and also the Solent. The boys did the sky walk and that was really scary, a solid glass block floor and you walk across thin air- good for jello legs! after getting back to eatrh we decided to go buy some squid and get to finding a crab. Before we went to Warsash we also decided that we w...

Well we decided to leave Jeaneete and Ades and pop off down to Devon. We had the wettest day on record for June here yesterday but we still managed to dodge those pesky raindrops and have a laugh. We followed he M4 and then the M5 motorways and passed some beautiful countryside and churches, along with old farmhouses, sheeep and lots of lovely Clotted cream producing cows- all you Americans this is cream thats so thick it sticks to your arteries whilst in the pot...