SATURDAY 26th MAY 2012ON TO DUBLINWe had hoped to drive the famous "Ring of Kerry" and see the much vaunted sights along this four hour drive, but we simply don't have time! b*****! Only got today and Sunday to get to Dublin and see the famous city and we are well over three hundred kilometres away - doesn't sound much, but the roads don't allow for averaging high speeds! We set out for Tralee, about thirty kilometres away, and then deviated a bit to ...

FRIDAY 25th MAY 2012TOURING IN IRELANDAfter a good nights sleep we had some breakfast, loaded up the car and set off to have a very brief look at Ireland! Our first stop was Hook Head, where the oldest operating lighthouse stands! It took an hour or so of driving the delightful little back roads to get there, through some of the most glorious scenery yo could imagine! We passed hundreds of beautiful neat little two story houses, with neat, tidy gardens - quite la...

THURSDAY 24th MAY 2012IRELANDHad a bit of a sleep in and after breakfast set out for the ferry port of Fishguard. The drive was only a couple of hours through magnificent dairy country, miles of lush pasture and crops! I'm not sure what I expected to see here in Wales but so far the bit we have seen has been most impressive! It all seems to be quite prosperous, mostly agricultural with some industry but no real signs of the financial problems that we hear abo...

WEDNESDAY 23rd MAY 2012BATH and on to WALESLeft Weston-Super-Mare in good time and made our way to Bath, found a car park, paid about five pounds for two hours parking and set off to look at this beautiful old city! The buildings and gardens were superb and the two hours flew by! Such history in these old cities, all the stories and legends that we were taught in school happened right here!!!! There were thousands of tourists about with all the narrow cobbled str...

TUESDAY 22 MAY 2012CORNWALL Great nights sleep in a very comfy bed at the Premier Inn and we grabbed a quick tea and toast in the restaurant downstairs before hitting the road and heading further west towards Cornwall.We decided we wanted to see the tip of England at Lands End so we programmed the GPS and took off!Once again we passed through some beautiful country, saw the edge of the Dartmoor moors and some of the amazing coastal scenery. We stayed on good road...