We met up for dinner and was joined by another couple, one of whom had been to England, Ireland and Italy. We flicked through the pictures I had taken during the day on the camera screen, which also had all my pictures from my recent Ireland excursion. Each picture reminded her of a place she had visited, including the Bushmills distillery. This brought us on nicely to the topic of vodka, so we sampled some very nice examples of such quite late into the evening. ...

OH MY GOD! I headed out after escaping the annoying kid, to discover how bad the roads actually are. I had been told they were bad, but nothing, NOTHING, would have prepared me for this. Heading away from the crossing, through a small village of small wooden houses, who all came out to look at my bike, and stare as if I was a UFO. The road sign said humps in the road and 30KPH by each one. Now it was nice to be warned about these smooth regular shaped bumps in t...