Almost last day

Wednesday started off a beautiful sunny morning. We had decided to go to see Ireland’s Eye, a small island near Dublin bay. As I drove through Phoenix Park I spotted my sister and niece escorting a group of school children to the zoo. She got quite a surprise when she saw us! When we arrived at Howth harbour I tried to contact the ferry company. I got no reply. As we waited at the harbour I found out from some people there that the ferry only operated at weekends, so no Ireland’s Eye for us. We walked around a part of Howth head until some rain started , at which stage we went back to the car. Newgrange was our next stop. Despite heavy rain, closed roads and poor signage, we eventually arrived there. We could not enter though as tickets were only issued at a different place and a bus took people from there to the Newgrange site. By this time we were just fed up and went back to Dublin. I never drove through as heavy rain as that which feel on the road back to Dublin. We went to the city centre and Cosmin and Gabi went hunting …………………books! It was almost like looking at kids in a sweet shop, lol. We had dinner in a nice “Irish” restaurant in the Temple Bar area. On the way back to the car park I got soaked and , though I did not realise it at the time, I picked up a cold infection. I dropped the book addicts back at the hotel and went home to do some laundry