Ireland day 0721. Tuesday 19 September 2023- Visitors Arrival *

Ireland day 0721. Tuesday 19 September 2023- Visitors Arrival

Today’s summary	Spent the morning tidying and cleaning the flat and sorting out paperwork. Short walk up through the demesne and down Church Road. Picked up our guests from the airport early evening and spent a happy evening chatting and drinking wine!
Today’s weather	Windy but mostly dry with only occasional showers. Strong to gale force south-westerly wind. Appx 17c

Today’s overview location (The green mark shows the location of our route)		Close-up location (The orange 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): Church Road

Commentary

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

Only a quick blog today. Most of the morning we spent finishing off the tidying and clearing that we hadn’t done yesterday. Then I tackled some of the avalanche of paperwork that seems to have landed through our door over the last few weeks. At least now it is all sorted out and filed, if not all completely understood or sorted out.

Once we’d done as much preparation as we reasonably could, we walked up through the eastern side of the demesne, then up the Bawn and down Church Road. We stopped off in Supervalu at the end to pick up a few essentials, then set off to the airport to pick up our guests who were coming over from the UK to stay with us for a few days.

They made it over from Bristol straightforwardly, then we all took a quick stroll round Malahide and settled down to an evening catching up on the news and planning the next few days. Oh – and finishing off a few bottles of wine too. A very enjoyable day, in all.

Today’s photos (click to enlarge)


Green in the demesne	Lone hydrangea still in full bloom

Sadly the fairy table in Hanlon’s Lane has disappeared



Curious acorns from the tree just by the entrance to the castle grounds. Maybe its a sessile oak?