Ireland day 1272. Sunday 23 March 2025- New Visitors Day 1

Today’s summary	A morning spent cleaning tidying and recycling, then to the airport to collect our friends. Lunch at the flat, then down to the Grand Hotel, where they are staying, to check in. Walk along the beach and dinner in the flat afterwards
Today’s weather	Overcast and cool, but dry. Moderate northerly wind. Appx 10c

Today’s overview location (The blue mark shows the location of our route)		Close-up location (The blue line shows where we walked) (No GPX today)

Commentary

We’ve got friends from the UK staying with us until Wednesday, so we spent the morning doing some last minute tidying and cleaning, and a bit of shopping and recycling, in anticipation of their arrival. At about 12:30, their flight from Heathrow landed, so we drove over to the airport to pick them up. I even managed to fill up with petrol while we were waiting for them to clear customs and immigration. They’d had a very smooth journey and that continued on this side of the Irish Sea, so we were back in Malahide by about 1pm.

We enjoyed a (delicious) light lunch of salad, with white wine, which Val had pulled together and which we all appreciated. A good couple of hours was spent putting the world to rights and catching up on all the news. Then we walked together down to the Grand Hotel, where our friends are staying, to check in. We took the opportunity to have a look round the interior of the hotel – which we had never done before, despite having been many times to the Matt Ryan bar for coffees. It was actually very nice, with good views across to the sea.

After they were successfully installed in their room, we reconvened and went for a short walk along the coast, then back to Malahide via Tesco to pick up some beers en route. We had chicken curry for dinner (another delicious concoction of Val’s) in the flat and then, after much food was consumed and alcohol knocked back, our friends pottered off back to their hotel in the late evening.

All in all, another good day, and there’s much more lined up for tomorrow, too!

Today’s photos (click to enlarge)


The view from inside a Grand Hotel guest bedroom. It’s actually very nice	*Beautiful Muscari* adorning the banks above the coast**

Major new development happening on the Coast road. Never noticed it before



With our friends on the beach, Lambay island behind