From Galway

Hi Bloggers,
Kate helped me with kick starting this blog so although I've arranged an alternate I thought it would be good to use this blog to see how it works for us and you.
So, although you've heard this before I'll prattle on for a bit to make use of the log-in.
We went to a pre-wedding party at a local restaurant last night and it was lovely meeting the lovely bride-to-be and her friends as well as Brad's Aussie and local friends. Brad is Paul and Cheryl's son. Their other son and wife and newish baby arrived yesterday - a big ordeal for a visit of about 5 days but one you'd have to do for your brother. Apparently Irish weddings are a big deal and carry on to the wee hours of the morning although I doubt that us oldies will go much past midnight.
When Barb and I hired a car for the first bit of our tour down south, I elected not to take extra insurance and wouldn't you know it, we got a stone chip the second day that eventuated into a decent crack. The excess was 900 euro - a heap of money. Anyhow, when we returned the car I did all I could to distract the chap examining the car and it looks as though we were lucky. Whew!
We'll probably look around Galway tomorrow although the weather is predicted to be heavy rain. Fortunately today is lovely (although bracing) and this is the most important since it's the wedding day.

OK, I've talked enough about nothing. Keep the All Ords moving north
Love
Barb and Greg

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