Some little trips

Holy Saturday (Continued) So, we got in the car and headed towards Galway. The journey was several hours and we kept the sat nav on as a guide. For long parts of the journey though it thought we were driving through fields....they had obviously built lots of new roads since our maps were sold! It worked fine though and we soon arrived in Galway. We were staying at the Westwood House Hotel which was much more traditionally decorated than The Beacon. We got our stuff sorted and then decided to head to town to take a look around. A quick bit of research suggested that Quay Street was worth exploring. We were going to walk but took the car in the end and in hindsight this was a good decision :) After much wandering (a key feature of the Lizzi tour) we decided to find somewhere for dinner. The clocks were going forward tonight and so we ate a little earlier than normal to try and avoid the time change denting our planned early start for the next day! Back to the hotel and ...

Over Christmas Rob and I asked Jennifer whether she had plans for Easter....she didn't and she had apparently been considering trips to Italy or Ireland. For some reason we chose Ireland (in hindsight given the weather Italy might have been the more obvious choice) and so here we go again :) Maundy Thursday We took the day off work and sorted out all the important things.....dog to kennels, clean house, go out for lunch. Eventually we got packing our bags - we were flying with Ryanair and weren't sure that our bags met the size limits and as we were taking the car we popped a few options in there in case we needed to repack to avoid their fee! We left for Bristol airport at around 5 and had an easy drive. We got there and parked, then walked to the terminal. We hunted around for a Ryanair bag measurer but couldn't find one - we decided to risk it and went through security. There was no line and we were through in seconds. We went to get dinner in the restaurant...