Saturday 2 June (Waterford) Difficult to wake the girls this morning, which is surprising as I was the one with the thick head! A late start then, and off to the Three Shippes for a good mixed grill for brunch and to watch the Springboks again hammer England (55-22). The girls went shopping and I visited the Granary, the Museum of Waterford. This had excellent displays relating the history of the various invasions (Viking, Norman, Anglo-Saxon) of Ireland.In the ...

Friday 1 June (Waterford) After showers in the Tower Hotel we had to move the boat to a visitors berth.This proved to be a very difficult manoeuvre as we had an ebb tide of nearly 3k and a headwind, and it took three worrying goes to get into a secure alongside berth. Old friends Gordon and Hazel Watson came aboard and took us to their home in Millstown for coffee and then to Waterford Crystal for lunch and the tour of the factory. They picked us up again in th...