Spoke to Scott, Jane & Jude this morning before heading to Galway. 3 hour drive through the countryside was beautiful. Arrived in Galway, checked in and went for a stroll into the city centre. Brett found a stool in a pub called Sonnys where he spent the afternoon chatting to locals. I went window shopping, no joy. We ate dinner at the Western Hotel where we were staying, food was delicious. Had a few drinks after dinner the hotel before heading back into ...

Went for a run this morning around our hotel area Passed the aviva stadium, quite amazing structure We then walked to Merrion square where we boarded the hop on hop off bus again headed for the Guinness storehouse We walked up the stairs for the seven levels of the brewery to the gravity bar, highest bar in Dublin Brett had a pint of guinness while I took advantage of the 360 degrees of scenery We then caught the bus back to the temple bar district for a few...

Early wake up call today for flight to Dublin, everything going relatively fine until we realize we cannot find our passports Mad panic unpacking every bag we had to try and find them - eventually Brett found the passports in the laptop case 5 minutes past the time we needed to leave Arrived at heathrowe airport to find plane is now delayed by 15 minutes, 3 from 3 planes now all delayed Finally boarded and were on our way to our second country Arrived Dublin ...

Weather today was miserable all day We headed down to the river in the morning to watch Neil in his dragonboat race for the Marlow Regatta which was interesting as all the teams were all dressed up, there was one team dressed up as smirfs. We didn't stay long as it was too cold, when we got home we just relaxed for a while, had lunch and for what we knew were going bowling with Linda, Ben and Anya. In the end it turned out we were going to the snowdome at Milto...

Slept in this morning after a few drinks last night Caught the underground from Charing Cross to Paddington and then the overground out to Maidenhead where we met Neil Once we arrived back at Linda and Neil's we changed quickly for a picnic in the park for the Marlow Regatta/Fun Fair. Linda had prepared an amazing lunch with rolls, salads, chicken, fruit, cookies, crisps and we couldn't forget a couple of pints of pimms. After lunch we took the kids to the Fun ...