Ireland day 0437. Friday 09 December 2022- Snowy *

Ireland day 0437. Friday 09 December 2022- Snowy

Today’s summary	Val had a double museum + castle shift today. A bit of snow last night and low temperatures made Malahide feel quite christmassy. I went to the gym while Val was at work then made Lough Avalla roast beef for dinner which we had inbetween Val’s shifts
Today’s weather	Dry clear and sunny all day with snow and ice underfoot. Light westerly wind. Appx 2C.

Today’s overview location (The blue mark shows the location of my route)		Close-up location (The green 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): Snow and ice in Malahide

Commentary

(Summary blog only. Last full blog was Day 0368).

I was woken up this morning by strange flashes of light coming through the blind in the bedroom window. For I while I couldn’t work out what it was then I wondered if it was coming from the overhead power lines on the DART. I remembered from back in the UK that you sometimes get arcing to the train pantograph if the cable is iced up. So I wasn’t surprised when I looked out of the window and discovered that a thin layer of icy snow had fallen during the night, and so for a brief few hours this morning, Malahide looked quite Christmassy.

It’s obviously quite a rare thing here – being so coastal and temperate in climate it’s rarely even frosty – meaning the roads and pavements hadn’t been gritted and cars and pedestrians were sliding about all over the place. Nevertheless, while Val was at work in the museum, I first of all had another video call with a friend in the UK then pottered down to the gym for a few exercises in the torture chamber, then a swim, then a very welcome opportunity to warm up in the sauna.

I made dinner (the last of the Lough Avalla roast beef which was absolutely superb) then Val was back off to work for the evening up the castle. I hope she manages to keep warm.

Today’s photos (click to enlarge)


St Sylvester’s church from the railway bridge – magnificent blue sky almost all day today	Down by the lagoon this evening. The snow barely melted at all today





Looking Christmassy on the Coast Road tonight