Ireland day 0496. Monday 06 February 2023- Admin3

Today’s summary	Spent the morning relaxing and listening to podcasts then Val went to work after lunch while I did some Spanish homework and did some paperwork.   Short walk round the demesne in the late afternoon then when Val was back we went to Kathmandu Kitchen for dinner
Today’s weather	Dry sunny and bright, feeling quite springlike.   Light south westerly wind.   Appx. 9C
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): Quick circuit of the Demesne

Commentary

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

Val was at the work in the afternoon so we spent the first part of the day having a leisurely morning and listening to a couple of podcasts.

After lunch, I settled down to tackle some paperwork – first up was Spanish homework which, this week, was quite hard.   Then, having rashly agreed to organise a Walking Club trip later this summer, I started making some of the arrangements.   It’s incredible how much time even simple things like these can take up!   By way of light relief, I went on a short walk around the demesne, and enjoyed the brief glimpse of spring that it afforded.

Once Val was home, we took a spontaneous decision to go out for dinner to our old favourite – Kathmandu Kitchen – to enjoy the luxury of having someone else prepare our dinner for us.   Anyway it felt justified as today is a brand new bank holiday in Ireland, to celebrate Imbolc (see blog a few days ago) or St Brigid’s Day – the first day of the Irish Spring.  All in all a busy day but ultimately rewarding and enjoyable.

Today’s photos (click to enlarge)

Enjoying a brief interlude in the paperwork	Up in the demesne.   The sunlight is markedly brighter than it was just six weeks ago
Celebrating the new Imbolc (St Brigid’s Day) bank holiday in Kathmandu Kitchen – where else!
The cricket pitch.   There is a plan to relocate the International matches away from Malahide, where temporary seating needs to be erected and dismantled at great expense every year, to a permanent ground at the Sport Ireland campus in Blanchardstown.   Could happen as soon as 2026

Interactive map

(Elevations corrected at  GPS Visualizer: Assign DEM elevation data to coordinates )

Download file: Demesne Loop compressed corrected.gpx

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