Sorry for the blank post - I actually wrote a lot but it appears to have vanished!! I'll try again.Covering 2 months in Ireland briefly: Coming down to Newmarket, we stopped in on Siobhan and her kids (pic) for an hour or so over tea and scones. Arrived at Granny's house to find that Kevin (uncle) had turned the heating on max and the house was so hot and stuffy that it was actually hard to draw breath upstairs. So we opened all the windows for a whi...

Mon 12th - Fri 23rd Mar Dublin/Kilcock (-10hrs Aus time)The cheapest flight I could get into Dublin for St Patrick's Day at this late notice actually arrived the week before. So I stayed with Joan (aunt) in Kilcock, about an hour by bus out of Dublin (but actually in a different county - Kildare). Joan has a great appartment, really comfy and best of all it has a tv with english channels on it (in France I resorted to watching reruns of Friends badly dubbed i...