Ireland day 1052. Thursday 15 August 2024- Busy Day

Ireland day 1052. Thursday 15 August 2024- Busy Day
Today’s summary Spent the whole morning making admin phone calls, then took Val to the airport for a quick trip to London.   After a snack lunch, I walked round the coast to Portmarnock Dunnes store then back over the hill to Malahide.  After a super healthy salmon salad dinner, spent the evening catching up on YouTube hiking videos
Today’s weather Overcast with overnight rain continuing most of the morning.   Dry with long sunny periods in the afternoon.   Light south westerly wind.   Appx 18c
Today’s overview location
(The green mark shows the location of my route)
Close-up location
(The orange 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):
Out and About
Commentary

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

Today had some of the routine characteristics of the previous two, but with a few modifications.

So, once again, most of the morning was taken up on admin on the computer screen and on the telephone .   Tedious but it had to be done.   Val, meanwhile, had an altogether more wholesome morning with a speedy run round the cricket pitch up in the demesne.

Once we’d finished our various tasks, we had a light snacky lunch, then it was off to the airport.   Val is returning to London for a couple of days, so I dropped her off at Departures in good time to catch her mid-afternoon Gatwick-bound Ryanair flight.

I came back to Malahide via Clare Hall Tesco, where I paused to pick up a few salad ingredients for tonight’s dinner.

Speaking of dinner, my diet, which I started to much fanfare a couple of weeks ago, has not, I regret to admit, been going very well.   So today I resolved to try and get back on track, which prompted me to head out to the Portmarnock Dunnes store to get some of their wild salmon which I thought would go well with the lettuce and beetroot I’d bought at Tesco.

Dunnes is a good walk away, but you can get there by heading down the coast path, and then making a loop of it by returning over the hill, laden with your shopping.   That’s what I did today and it took me more or less exactly two hours, flat-back-to-flat.

So now it’s time to tuck into my salad but seeing as Val is away, I’m going to indulge my fantasies by watching some hiking videos on YouTube as I eat.   At least it will take my mind off the gerbil food.

Today’s photos (click to enlarge)

I’ve eulogised about Kerrigan’s butchers a lot recently.   Well, here it is Wise advice from Malahide Sea Scouts
Lot’s of people out and about, but they’re well hidden This is what the spectacular alpine summit of Paddy’s Hill looks like
Healthy or what!   Tonight’s dinner
I’ve never noticed this blockhouse on the Malahide shore before.   It’s about a metre high and must be completely submerged at high tide.   Probably something to do with the adjoining wastewater pipe
Interactive map

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

Total distance: 9848 m
Max elevation: 53 m
Min elevation: 0 m
Total climbing: 143 m
Total descent: -143 m
Total time: 01:58:55
Download file: Out-and-about-compressed-corrected.gpx

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