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 | ||||
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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)
Interactive map
(Elevations corrected at GPS Visualizer: Assign DEM elevation data to coordinates )
Max elevation: 53 m
Min elevation: 0 m
Total climbing: 143 m
Total descent: -143 m
Total time: 01:58:55