James Birthday present – West Brom V Chelsea at The Bridge

Happy Birthday James – Lobster Seafood Platter

Thanks Loch Fyne, excellent meal.

Early start on the final day to ‘beat the rush’ at the World Heritage site at Newgrange. Actually there turned out to be two sites, the first at Knowth being the better (in my view!)

and then on the more famous Newgrange. Note the reconstructed huge front wall. Most of the site people had a view that the professor in charge of the rebuild had got it badly wrong. I agree.

And then on to Slane for lunch. Unfortunately the Castle was closed. Still, great fun at the cafe where the waitress went to the pub accross the road to get me a pint of Guinness to go with my lunch.

A walk by the Boyne to see Slane Castle from afar

Then to Monasterboice to see the biggest Celtic crosses in Ireland.

And then dropped in at Drogheda for a quick look

….and then back to the airport….

Started the day at Clonmacnoise.

Intermediate Distillery and lunch stop at Kilbeggan

Lunch at a local cafe, with tea !!!

Then on to the Hill of Tara, Iron Age settlement

Trim Castle

Evening meal – Chippy Tea!

A short trip to Laycock, in Wiltshire (?)

a wander round the village, and then the NT Abbey

Just a great picture of the two of them…

A Sunday run out to Dulwich Picture Gallery – why ? Well because for some reason they decided to have a David Hockney Printmaker exhibition. No photos from there, but we followed up with  a NT visit at Ham House, near Richmond

A Sunday run to out to Dulwich Picture Gallery. Why? Well for some reason they had decided to have an David Hockney Printmaker Exhibition. Very Good.  The a visit to an NT house – Ham House near Richmond

So, here’s a few pictures from the diving on Genada with the on resort dive team at  Ecodive.

It was a typical mix of reef dives at 12-20 meters, giant lobster, seahorses and moray eels

with a handful of wrecks, some a bit deeper.

Something a bit different was the ‘famous’ underwater sculpture park

Great team at the dive centre, thanks all.