Ireland day 1302. Tuesday 22 April 2025- November?

Today’s summary	Spent most of the day doing some maintenance on this website then took Val to the airport. She’s making a flying visit to London. Then went on a short walk in the evening in the pouring rain. A good test of my waterproof phone case. Baked monkfish tail for dinner
Today’s weather	Started sunny and pleasant but deteriorated to persistent heavy cold rain in the evening. Brisk south easterly wind. Appx 11c

Today’s overview location (The blue mark shows the location of my route)		Close-up location (The blue line shows where I walked) (Click button below to download GPX of today’s walk as recorded, or see interactive map at bottom with elevations corrected): November in April

Commentary

Today’s main task was to do a bit of maintenance on this website. Actually what I wanted to do was to build an excel spreadsheet-based system that would automatically generate template HTML code to make blogging on long multi-day trips easier. It sounds fairly simple – and I thought it would be when I started – but it ended up taking me most of the day.

Val went on a run while I was doing this, then when she returned we treated ourselves to a salmon salad for lunch. Very healthy.

Later in the afternoon, I took Val over to the airport to catch a flight to London. She’s paying a flying visit to family and will be back tomorrow evening.

By the time I returned, the day which had started so promisingly rapidly began to deteriorate. So it suited me to stay in, keep dry, and finish my work on the computer. Eventually, though, it was completed so I decided to take a short walk to the shops to get some tomatoes.

As soon as I stepped out into the open, I realised this might be a mistake. It was pouring, the wind had got up and it felt freezing cold. Anyway it was the perfect opportunity to test out the new waterproof case for my Pixel navigation phone (it worked brilliantly).

I duly collected my tomatoes, returned to the flat, and changed out of my wet gear. I was soaked, even though I had only been out for half an hour.

For dinner I roasted some monkfish tail with lemon and bacon (courtesy of Dunnes), which I served with salad and spinach. I hope I’m not taking this healthy eating too far..

The evening was finished off with a travel video about Uganda on YouTube. Very interesting, but it didn’t make me want to go.

Today’s photos (click to enlarge)


Compare and contrast. This was this morning – a promising start to the day..	..and this was this evening. A disappointing end

My view for most of the day	Waterproof case for the Pixel. So far so good



Healthy lunch!