Days 238-239, 5-6 Feb '15, Farewell to the Farm-let in Caim... Hello to the big-smoke of Enniscorthy. Mainly it's caused by coal fires on cold days - but still, we're now, officially, downtown for a holiday. Obviously, to the untrained eye, it would seem that we're always on holidays - but it's the gaps between housesits with no cats, dogs, goats or chickens and no-one to feed but ourselves that we consider to be actual vacations. After fond farewells to our f...

Days 232-237, 30 Jan-4 Feb '15. Sunday drive to Meylar's Mill in Tacumshane (1st Feb). And, believe it or not, starting to packed for our next adventure. It took us a while to get organised on Sunday morning, but it was a gorgeous day (no wind) and we eventually made a move. We found a brochure weeks ago for Meylar's Mill (www.millhousebar.ie). We'd even made a reservation a couple of times for their Sunday lunch special (2 courses for €14.95). Never actua...

Days 227-231, 25-29 Jan '15, Clonegal & Huntingdon Castle, Duckett's Grove Ruins, Browneshill Dolmen, Pie & Chips at Leighlinbridge overlooking the Black Castle, Rudkins Mill on the River in Bagenalstown (AKA: Muine Bheag c.1680s - pictured), drive up Mt Leinster for stunning views and a final stroll in Bunclody. We've been working our way through a booklet of driving trips which have, up til now, been fabulous. Maps, highpoints and the handy "blue dot"...

Day 226, 24 January 2015. Woo hoo! Fine Day = River Valley Road Trip! Dunbrody at New Ross and Fish & Chips in the sun, pretty Inistioge with friendly churches, Anglo-Norman Grennan Castle for a photo-stop, Thomastown and a "drive-by" of Jerpoint Abbey, Graiguenamanagh (we kid you not), then home via the back roads. It was wet, gray and drizzly yesterday, and so perfect weather for our "carnic" picnic and outing. But today dawned bright, sunny and with bl...

Days 223-225, 21-23 January 2015, 'The Still' Swans Experience and a CarNic en route to Ferns for coffee and a cookie and then exploration of a 12th century abbey and the ruins of the first Ferns cathedral. (*"CarNic" - new word from moi for picnic held in car because bottom would get wet sitting anywhere else.) Miserable day weather-wise (23rd - Can you believe it, 11 shopping months til Christmas). Drizzly. Gray. Cold. Breezy. Finally getting a bit of cabin-fe...