Now in Kilkenny, at the moment it's showing 0 degrees on car temp gauge,that's ice on car, blue sky and hopefully another nice day. At a fantastic B&B house. Went out last night and had Italian meal very nice same again tonight but different places our hosts recommend this place. Here for 3 nights,

Hi every one Weather has been cool but luckily no rain so far We are driving a Ford Mondeo diesel manual very nice car, when you stop and apply hand brake,a little switch on console the engine shuts down and put foot back on clutch engine start s up again Our second night at This guest house nothing spectacular, hopefully the next one is better Had lunch in a very friendly pub yesterday, in Wicklow, The Irish are very friendly

Went into the very bid mosque this morning,went to a shopping centre after,nothing like Dubai shopping mall,slipped on the escalator, came down on my elbow,a few. big cuts but nothing serious,just a bandaged elbow,annoying,had it looked at by medical crew at the shopping centre, going to have dinner at hotel tonight before getting taxi to airport at 11pm

Left hotel early,now sitting in Etihad lounge, very big very nice.

Just had breakfast in the 5 star hotel that Etihad has put us in. Unbelievable food area