I realised I’d missed out quite a few days of what we’d been up to. That’s because we’d “joined holiday” with some of V’s family who’d rented a house in Killarney and kindly invited us to go along. Killarney is justifiably one of the must-visit places in Ireland, and we had a great time with everyone.
Excursion highlights were walking around the outside of Muckross House in the sun (!), and going a bit further afield to Inch beach, which you can drive onto. It was a very blustery day, but we’d brought along a couple of windbreaks and with careful positioning alongside the Bongo, we managed to create a reasonably comfortable beach picnic zone. Some of us (including me) made it into the Atlantic Ocean, which was a bit nippy and full of seaweed, as you’d expect.
Non-excursion highlight for me was playing roulette using V’s old Fabulous Fred computer using sweets as gambling chips at the insistence of niece and nephew. V’s mum won more Rolos than she knew what to do with, but we graciously helped her out. Hopefully this will not set the little ones on the path of ruin that betting can lead to – we did try to explain that 7/1 odds were ridiculously generous for a straight bet on a number with a 1 in 9 chance of coming up. And that casinos tended not to operate using Smarties, and frowned on snaffling from the dealer.