Rushing to get to Ireland

It’s been a while. Believe it or not this is the first time that I have had a chance to sit down, transfer all the photos to a place I can access for the blog, have enough wi-fi access and have enough solitude to focus on putting something together. We are now at a campground close to Cork, and it has great wi-fi. Those things haven’t come easy, but here goes.

Yes, our focus has always been Ireland, but, on our way to catch the ferry across to Rosslaire from Fishquard, we had a couple of stops: one stop at Stonehenge and another at a cousin, Liz, who lives with John in Wales (see map). A number of the photos are of the landscape, some of Liz’s home, Stonehenge and a garden we visited in Wales that belongs to the Banks family. For you sailors, you probably know of the botonist , Joselph Banks from reading about James Cook’s voyages. This estate is owned by a related Banks, not the Joseph Banks that traveled with Cook.

The following photos have not been edited so some may not come out well but here goes:

The second part of the trip in England was getting from Liz’s to the ferry in Fishguard. A scenic 3 hour + drive to the coast of the Irish Sea and one night of camping before catching the 0130hrs ferry across to Ireland.