Jono and I are both fans of trains so when we found out a steam train was running from Dublin to Wicklow we jumped at the chance to go on it. What a fantastic day it was. We got to travel from Dublin Connolly to Greystones on the K2 Class 2-6-0 No 461. The sun shone and... Continue Reading →
Lovely Limerick
Last month I went on my first visit to Limerick. Jono was going to Limerick for BroCon so myself and Lucy went along to check out the city. After a 4 hour bus trip from Sligo to Limerick (with a brief stop in Galway to change buses and a much-needed toilet break!) I was delighted when... Continue Reading →
Dreams do come true
It's hard to believe that it's less than three weeks ago since I put out an appeal for help with Jono's Journey. Jono has suffered from poor health for much of his life. The one thing that has kept Jono sane through the long days of pain is Pokemon. Since he was given a GameBoy... Continue Reading →
What else we did on our Cloonacool holiday
That sounds a bit like a Famous Five book title or possibly a film - I know what you did last summer 😉 Anyway I wrote so much about the Moy River B&B in my previous post that I didn't want to make it any longer with the other things we did. To be fair... Continue Reading →
My bucket list
I woke up at some ungodly hour during the week and ideas of a bucket list popped into my head. Most of these I've wanted to do for a while and hopefully I'll get to do at least some of them. Oh and if you are like my friend Heidi and think I'm about to... Continue Reading →
Enchanting Eindhoven
This is such and overdue blog post. It's almost a year since we went to Eindhoven in the Netherlands. Ryanair had cheap flights so we decided to go somewhere different and somewhere that we hadn't really thought about before - so Eindhoven was the place. We had no preconceived ideas about the place, although I... Continue Reading →