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We started early this morning with a short walk back to the gardens at St Patrick’s Cathedral before breakfast. Bernie was keen to put the drone up to take a photo of the cathedral after starting it up yesterday and having it tell him that he COULD fly it in the area but needed to exercise caution. He chose not to fly it yesterday as there were too many people about but learnt last night that the gardens open at 7.30am. So, there we were at about 7.35am and the gates were not open. Damn! We walked down Bull Alley Street with Bernie planning to fly the drone over the fence to take a couple of photos. As he was unpacking it, I noticed that there were people inside the garden, and I offered to walk ... read more

This morning, we headed towards Dublin’s Georgian District in the south-eastern quadrant of the city. As we meandered in that direction, we passed St Werburgh’s Church and Dublin Castle. We will visit the castle another day but took the opportunity to venture into the courtyard this morning to take some photos before lots of tourists were about. As Dame Street merged into College Green we admired the Bank of Ireland building. It was challenging trying to take photos with end-to-end double decker busses motoring along the street! Perseverance paid off and photos of Ireland’s original Parliament Building were eventually taken. The bank has occupied the building since 1803 with Ireland’s Parliament being incorporated into the British Parliament in 1801. From the building that was once Parliament House we ventured around to Kildare Street where Leinster House ... read more

After just 39 days at home, we are off again! This time we are leaving on a jet plane for Ireland which we will explore in detail for a month before heading on to Spain for about three weeks. On the evening flight to Dubai, today has been a long day. With most of our packing finalized yesterday we have felt like we have been killing time waiting, waiting, waiting for it to be time to head to the airport! We walked this morning to get some steps recorded before our long-haul flight later on. After our walk Bernie headed over to the shopping center for a massage to iron out all of his bike rider’s kinks for our holiday. Having indulged in my massage last Wednesday I cleaned the kitchen and bathrooms, so they’ll be ... read more

It was a very lazy day in Adelaide today. After breakfast we popped out to the Adelaide Market with Meredith to pick up a few items. The Adelaide Market is so vibrant and full of mouth-watering produce. There were cakes galore, but we resisted the temptation. It was much less busy than expected given it was the Wednesday before Easter which was very welcome as it made it easier to negotiate the aisles amongst the fruit and veg, nuts, meat and seafood. Later in the morning Meredith headed off to a lunchtime function and left us to our own devices. We meandered our way up to the Rundle Mall for a bit of window shopping. Which turned into actual shopping with Tracey purchasing a blouse in Myer. We had a bit to eat in the food ... read more

Last night while we were having dinner Bernie and Cathy found notices online indicating that the Eyre Highway east of Border Village was closed and a detour via the Old Eyre Highway was in place. We decided not to worry too much about it last night hoping that the way would be clear this morning. Anyway, we thought, that ‘could’ facilitate a visit to the Koonalda Homestead because it looked like the detour went on the old highway to the homestead and then returned to Highway A1 via the access road to the homestead? Aiming to leave at 8.15am this morning we were packed and ready to go at 7.45am … even though all the digital watches said it was only 7.00am! Groan, it felt like we were on the road again before we went to ... read more