Day 205, 3 Jan '15, Enniscorthy Opshops & Pub Investigations. We drove into town this morning for groceries and a general jaunt. Purpose of the visit was checking out a couple of possible dinner venues for James's 50th. Ventured to Treacy's Hotel on the far side of the river. Brilliant stuff. Ended up in the Temple Bar supping an ale and a cider and perusing 3 separate menus for their various restaurants. Definitely the right spot. We are both against pa...

Day 204, 2 Jan '15, Wexford Waterfront, Shops, St Selskar's Abbey. We finally made it to Wexford today and can confirm that we have some sort of reverse Midas touch when it comes to parking in Ireland. Aside from anything else, the majority of the country's GDP appears to come from parking fees. We however are repeatedly demonstrating the ability to drive into the most expensive car park in town. Had rather hoped we'd dodged a bullet today, since the payment ma...

Days 202-203, 31 Dec-1 Jan '15, Hook Lighthouse, Wellingtonbridge, Templetown. What better way to spend New Year's Eve than beginning our explorations of South-East Ireland together with Joan. We decided to visit Hook Head and the historic lighthouse (pictured). It is in fact the oldest intact operational lighthouse in the world and the current structure dates from the 13th century - 800 odd years ago. From a beacon fire when built by Strongbow's son-in-law in ...

Day 200, 29 December 2014, Enniscorthy to Dublin & back - by road. Road Trip!!! Before we get started here is one of the funniest slogans on Christmas tops that we saw over the season... "Santa saw your Facebook photos and you're getting clothes and a Bible for Christmas!" Loved it. Moving right along. As mentioned previously, the world's biggest secret was finally revealed to James on Christmas Day (though I'm pretty sure I'd told just about everyone else)...

Days 196-199, 25-28 December 2014, 3 miles or so from Enniscorthy... en route to Kiltealy, near the Kiltrea Potteries... Roughly. We headed from Dublin to Enniscorthy on Christmas Eve - thoroughly overexcited - off on a new adventure - the south-east is a new part of Ireland for us and the 2 hour train ride highlighted some lovely coastal scenery before heading into the rich stony hues of the inland country side. With our backpacks covered in country patches an...