A knock on the head...

Playlist
Various - Jukebox Shuffleplay
Various - Holiday Hits Vols 1-10
Various - Now That's What We Call Music

Back home today (after a quite frankly huge breakfast) and we drove for two and a half hours from Kinsale up to Shannon but not before one last touristy outing to Fort Charles just outside Kinsale...



The guide gave us a new insight into Irish history, giving the lie to the well-worn opinion of religious conflict - apparently, something like 40% of William of Orange's army were catholic and it was funded to a large extent by the pope (I'm struggling to find any corroboration of this factlet however)...

Anyway, we headed up the road to Shannon, stopping off at Bunratty castle and the famous "village inn" "Durty Nelly's"...



We didn't lunch there though....

I instead partook of a soothing mushroom soup, purchased from the establishment over the road in a fit of pique after being maliciously attacked by some kind of wooden box sticking out over Dirty Nelly's urinal, which inflicted this rather painful (if pathetically small) wound...



After lunch, on to Shannon Airport ....



...from where we flew home in the early evening...

I was looking forward to collecting Meg the Black Cat from her holiday but Julia called to advise she was going out tonight for her sister's birthday so it'll have to be tomorrow...

Also missed Jim Park's latest comedy performance - by the time we got back I was too tired to venture forth for a night of comedy (sorry Jim!!) - maybe it was the two and half hour drive from Kinsale to Shannon, the two and a half hour wait at the airport, the flight back to Edinburgh or maybe it was the bang on the head I received in the Gents at "Durty Nelly's"...

All in all though, another very enjoyable trip...

Highlight of the Day : Home again...