A Lady trip
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Thu 24 Sep 2009 11:30
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Thursday 26th August 2009
Crew , Stephen and Aileen,
08.00 early breckfast, suffering from withdrawl
symptoms after the Martin's departure. We had a few meetings with
Soprimar
about a few items wcich needed attention, including
, polishing up the hull and touching up the scratch marks, clean and antifoul
the underside
and replace the gate valves on the hull, as the
existing ones had totally siezed up. ( seems , from a lack of use,)
We ordered a taxi for friday morning at 04.30 , as
we were flying back to cork from faro airport at 06.10
........early
We had a meal ashore before going to the
superbunk..........zz
Friday 27th Aug 2009
Crew :- stephen and Aileen
Got the early flight to cork, weather was
miserable, but we had promised Margaret (How ) that we would certainly go to
Ericks wedding, ever before we had our sailing plans finalised. The wedding was
to be in Glandore the following friday.
A quick visit to the office by Stephen after lunch
confirmed the the great Veronica was still on top of things there.
Paul was gone cycling, his new career,
Sarah and Paul, ( her still husband) cooked dinner
for us in their house that night, lovely lovely, yum yum, and we all watched (
yet again ) the Arnaud
disc of photo's taken on board A Lady by the
following contributors :- Arnaud, Sarah, Rom, Stephen, Denis O'Sullivan,
Lorna, well done Arnaud again ,
you did a great job, Arnaud Disant is french
( as you see from the name ) he is married to a french lassey with one daughter,
and they live and work in cork, Arnaud has his own I.T. buisness and services
half of ireland , as far as we can see.
we had a good sleep in our own bed that
night.....zzzzz
Saturday 28th Aug 2009
We were given a present of a weekend in Powerscourt
by the children which we had to use or loose. we arrived around six o clock and
had dinner in Gordan ramsey's that night. we were luckey to get in, recession me
eye, well certainly not in Dublin.
Sunday 29th Aug 2009
Following a good breckfast and a lovely mass, we
played a game of golf with Neill O Rielly, He took all the money, bought a pint
and parted company as his mother in law was seriously ill.
Leah and Johnny joined us in the Hotel for dinner,
we had a lovely evening and all parted company around 11.30, and retired to bed
, wrecked, getting
too old for all this racing around, and were not
finished yet. I decided that I would give up the drink for two weeks at least,
and I did, which included the wedding.
Monday31th Aug 2009
England....... Stephen and Aileen left Powerscourt
at 07.00 for Dublin Port, arrived at 08.00 hrs and boarded the ferry for
HollyHead on our way to Stratford upon Avon. A little bit of buisness to attend
in the area, Our fellow travellors renagued at the last minute, so we wound up
going alone.
We booked into the hotel and went up town for a
walk and a meal, most places were offering dinner for two at £9.50 in total,
some even included a glass
of wine. makes our little country look like its
still " rip off Ireland " but we all still like the " THE OLD SOD
"
Tuesday 1st September 2009
Aileen arranged a tour of stratford at 10.30.
excellent, we visited all the SHAKESPHERE hot spots, by the way, he was a rascal
, like all other poets,
writers, artists, and craft people in general,
intelligent and alcholic, LOVE THEM.
The guide gave us these wonderfull bit's... true or
not, we will never know..
* To get access to King George of England you could
only do so by talking to either one of his two mistress's ,, one of which was
very heavy and the
other who was very thin, Hence the _expression_
" through thick and thin "
* it also seemed around Shakesphere's time, it was
customery to dig up grave's and burn the bones every 30 years or so to make way
for new bodies.
these were known as " bone fires " later to become
known as BONFIRES.
Stratford upon avon is a must visit for anyone
travelling to that region. We went to a russion play that night. called THE
DRUNK, it was very good, basically
going over the history of Russia up to the collapse
of communisim,
Back to the hotel and a little snack on the way.
good day..
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