Ireland day 0537. Saturday 19 March 2023- Longest Yet *

Ireland day 0537. Saturday 19 March 2023- Longest Yet

Today’s summary	Val received some beautiful flowers for Mother’s Day first thing then we walked round the castle demesne and had a takeaway lunch in the Botanic Garden. A leisurely evening watching some TV on the laptop
Today’s weather	Brilliant sun at first but cloud in the afternoon and rain by 3pm. Light southerly wind. Appx 8C

Today’s overview location (The blue mark shows the location of our route)		Close-up location (The blue line shows where we walked) (Click button below to download GPX of today’s walk as recorded, or see interactive map at bottom with elevations corrected): Walk round the demesne on crutches

Commentary

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

It was mothers day today but our plans to lie in bed for a few moments to enjoy the celebratory tea and porridge that I’d managed to concoct were interrupted – in the nicest possible way – by the arrival of the Interflora man with a delivery of flowers for Val from our family. A really lovely surprise and the bouquet is enjoying pride of place in the living room now.

Once we’d got over the excitement and had breakfast, we got up and I managed to knock off yet more of my Spanish homework (there is absolutely loads this week) while Val read some more of her book. Then we decided to set off into the castle demesne for a longer walk – just as it was starting to drizzle. Anyway, we made it right round the perimeter of the demesne – a cool 6km which is my longest walk since my operation. I have to reveal that we did seek sustenance at the midpoint though elected to go take-away as the queue for the café was enormous.

We enjoyed our sausage rolls and tea in the “botanic” garden then hot-footed it – to the extent I can hot foot anything at the moment – back to the flat as the rain started to come down hard. Once back in the flat we had another now-customary snooze (I do hope this isn’t going to become a permanent habit – though it is rather nice I have to admit) and prepared dinner – it’s spare ribs tonight. We’re going to watch a bit of TV with a glass of wine now, then another early night will probably beckon.

Despite being asleep most of the time, I am beginning to feel quite a lot better now – probably better than I have been for quite some time, actually. Long may it continue.

Today’s photos (click to enlarge)


Acacia tree in full bloom up near the Avoca café. It had a delicious honey-like smell	Sausage roll lunch – and crutches!

Willow tree in the castle botanic garden putting on a spring-like appearance	Val enjoying the rain on the way to the Tresco Wall



At the point of no return – furthest point from the flat on the circular walk round the demesne