If you're Irish....

Well to be sure its meself blogging.. from inside a posh hotel to the west of Dublin. Duly Guinessed with dinner and now about to retire for the night. Thanks to the hotel for complimentary Internet so we lesser mortals can blog till the early hours.

What a week around the Rings of Southern Ireland  viz Beara and Kerry but what beautiful scenary but driving along the passes with just the width of the coach is a bit daunting but we have lived to tell the tale. Plus that big bright unidentified object has been following us all week although today it was replaced by a big Grey cloud so lets hope it'll still be around next week when I come back to Galway and Athlone.

What mess is the Euro getti ng me into 80cents to the £ makes my coffees expensive on the coach but the pax still pay in pounds. Mind today I saw a lovely sign it said R600 to both the left and the right but the right one had under it the words short route to where i was going.......

Irish or what - better be nice to them or the little people will jinx me,

See you all soon........

Brighton is a Seaside town!

Here we are again, back after the trials of a trip to the seaside! It is true you know the days of a Sea side break are numbered not in years but months! Its not surprising the Political parties are moving away from their traditional conference venues, what a dump Brighton has become, from a once lively resort near London to a stop on the School trip meter and then only a brief one to make notes of the Volks railway which seem defunct, certainly not for the Coach parking facility so far along the beach you had to have a Taxi to reach civilisation, and when parked there you have take care of the numerous FUN bikers on their Suzukis and Hondas and Kawakars all trying to fall off the back of their machines whilst trying to reach unobtainable speeds and polluting the ears with the racket - pity the poor people who live in the expensive high rise over looking the beach at that point! The hotel I had the pleasure of stopping in was right in the middle luckily not afflicted by the Gas leak from one of the neighbouring hotels Thursday night, it looked Friday morning as if all the Fire officers were in for breakies after the crews had stood down!

Mind you at lest the weather relented and for the last three days a mysterious object was observed in the heavens and bright light shone down bringing warmth on the tourists - it almost made the burnt out pier attractive - but it wasnt enough to bring the naturalists out on the nudie beach only a small point to raise I suppose but it wasnt that warm ......ho ho!

Well next week we shall be in the Emerald Isle so I hope the wee folk will smile on us and give an Indian summer or maybe that is reserved for Luton? Lets hope the Guiness is cool.. talking of cool have you see my mentors new web site? Super read Sue and I hope you get the message out - so look at The Fragile X Association of Australia an excellent read and give them your support!

I wish I was that clever but thats toooo much to ask for, but she did encourage me to blog - and yes I know we want more photos to liven it up - but I have to take them and I forgot the Camera

Senior moments! now what was I doing here? ..........

What a Week of misdirection!

Here we are again another week past and what a week rain, rain and more rain, and it was supposed to be Scotland and yes there is a high road and a low road and I was there before yea, one is the A9 which goes all the way to Inverness and the other is some thing like the A820 going to Fort Willum - I may be wrong but Minnie is usually right when she is told the correct details , but we ended up in Conference land this week and next, Bournemouth last Brighton this week but at least they speaka de English albeit with a Romanian accent having lived in Dorset I have never heard so many foreign voices especially in the Burglar King restaurant - all Korean or Fillipeanos.... wot you like wif it fries or wot?

Glad to see Sue (Blogging Sueblimely) has her son in his first choice adult centre we wish him all the luck in the world and more, whilst I am at it hows about that lovely 13 year old swimmer didnt she do well for the Team GB two gold medals well done her!

Mind you I swim like a brick doesnt! if I get any where near a pool the Whale watchers come out and I get nervous if there are any orientals at pool side hee hee. Not that one is large but one does cast a shadow when the sun shines if only....

Mind you now I have a posh neat dongle thingy, I shall be able to blog from a foreign field not b.... likely at wot Orange want to charge £60 plus a month just to have the facility rip off comes hastily to mind, well better get some ugly sleep before the sandman says oi get up you lazy so n so! better than the old fried or boiled? that old Black & White collegues would remember from the Portsmouth days - I bet that gent is now waking up the angels in the etheral b -n - b.

Well nite all.... will blogg more later....

Back in the Country

Hi Folks, now back in the country - having had a week in the land of the Kilt and the Haggis. Weather was ok tho who says you have to go abroad for the sun we got some sun and of course some rain, We went visiting all sorts of beautiful scenary and guess who had left the camera at home... but the colours were lovely when it wasnt foggy...

The hotel well it was okay but why oh why cant they use local produce in their restaurants oh sorry one night we had Haggis and it was fresh and very moist as were the neeps, luckily tho no Bagpipes were in evidence....

But what a long haul, the roads seemed to go on and on bit like this post I hear you say.... okay okay I can take a hint I'll hang up the keyboard till later when I get back from the next trip you guessed it back to Scotland, so I 'll take the high road and you can take - you know the song. Tara till next week

Dismal Week

Well what a week that was - Two days and nights closeted in an Hotel room in Eurodisney the good thing was I could purchase the English daily papers so at least I had a puzzle or two to play with - memo to self increase games on office computer.

Why why why do Parents teach the offsprings not to talk to strangers and THEN encourage or even push them into the arms of a Giant Mouse and its not just a few there must of been 50,000 of various nations in the complex, all there to see the Giant Mouse and its friends! Talking Dogs gee haw shucks!

I must be the original Mr Grumpy, and queues have you ever seen such lines the Americans call them I pity the poor Bus drivers who work the hotel shuttles in the area boy do they earn their Euros, and wow how Rude can folks be, on holiday yes but no need to be impolite, I overheard one group who on holiday abroad (yes english) for the first time moaning about some chaps lack of understanding, cos the recipient -French, involved couldnt speak english, if Mr Angry had wanted that then why didnt the moron stay in Margate? they all speak English, Polish, French, German, maybe urdu and pashtu as well!

The food well French it wasnt but universal slops it was, especially after 4 -500 people had sorted their way through the Food Service area it was like going through a giant hanger with attitude and of course the interuptions of Giant Mice.... I just wonder how many million Croissants a day pass through the complex, there must be a machine working endlessly just making them and as they are baked building in instant stale!

Ho hum thats this weeks gripe over lets see how the Scots fare next week - Is it Haggis season?

Home sweet home

Well here we are at last back in the old home stead! That last week was very fraught never having been to Austria before, and then on the way back I found out the GO machine was flat 'Good job' i didnt get stopped that would of cost a bucket load of Euros! But that is what we are for these foreign johnny's a walking ready cash machine....

Who'd be a Coach driver abroad these days? Mind you its just as bad if not worse in the UK always on the look out for the men in Brown coats but hey they have a job to do just like us....only thing is if you get caught doing something wrong its not your legs that get slapped its your wallet that gets emptied and when you dont earn a site then that is almost like living below the poverty line...but what you have to remember is that if they catch you they get their brownie points and they get their bonus for the month...talk about food chain...

But boy the scenery was nice see the pictures but that does'nt pay the rent,

Ho hum must be away got to go clean some windows or the pax wont know where we are!! as if I do!

Painless Tours

Well thats another done and dusted, Last week it seemed as if the whole of Germany was at a place called Neuwanstein Castle and a few dogs as well, but wow what a place thats how the other half used to live. But what a load of stairs. The only people making loadsa money were the Horse Bus drivers 5 Euros up the hill 2.50 down now thats the way to do it! But the scenary was worth it in the end but not the heart attack hee hee
Note to self must learn how to put in pictures... maybe Sue B will take pity on me and let me know in words of one sylabub. Oh Oh theres the fone bye for now....