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Hi just thought I would tell you all a little bit about our trip to Ireland.
We left on Saturday 5Th April and returned today.
Before I left I had e'mailed a few sites to ask a: if they could accomodate a 34' RV and b: did I need to book well they all responded in typical Irish fashion "no bother just tirn up we we'll fit you in"!!!!
Got off the Pembroke-Rosslare ferry and within an hour we we just north of Wexford at the Trading Post Camper Park There was a small old pub a few yards away that served the best pint of Guiness I have had for years and the people were really friendly
On the Monday after waking up to snow!
We headed across country to a site just outside Killkenny Treegrove
It was a 25 minute walk into the town had a good look around and visited the castle and of course went for refreshments found a really good pub with a really helpful Irish barmaid unlike others who had foreign girls who struggled with English!
We then left on the Friday 11th and got to Camac Valley site just outside Dublin we stayed here till Monday as our daughter lives in the city. Although Dublin is very vibrant I am not a great lover of the city the place is over run with Eastern block people mostly Polish there were also a lot of foreign beggars. The good old Irish barman is disappearing very fast as this invasion takes over!! Never the less we had a good time and the site is very good and about an hour on the bus to the city centre 2 Euro eachway!
Then we travelled to my aunts farm in Mayo just outside Swinford had loads of relatives to see and my cousin allowed us to use his car so day trips to Castlebar, Ballina and Sligo were taken and in each town I'm sad to say staff at shops bars and even Pizza Hut were in the main eastern European! I must say I do admire these people for making a new life for them selves but it is so frustrating having to make yourselve understood in what is essentialy my home country!
My aunts farm, do you like the painwork?
It was our plan to travel down to Galway and further south but my aunt would not hear of us only spending a couple of days with them so we finally left on Sunday late afternoon to drive the 200 odd miles to Rosslare.
This was the first time to Ireland in the RV all in all a thoroughly enjoyable holiday the roads are very good with a few exceptions and driving the RV was not a problem all the sites we stayed on were very helpful with good facilities only one slight niggle why do some charge seperately for showers? The hook ups were fine and we did not trip one which I feel is quite good as most were rated at 6amp!
Forgot to add deisel over there is getting expensive for them anyway 1.26 Euro which makes it about just over a pound sterling!
Regards Pat
We left on Saturday 5Th April and returned today.
Before I left I had e'mailed a few sites to ask a: if they could accomodate a 34' RV and b: did I need to book well they all responded in typical Irish fashion "no bother just tirn up we we'll fit you in"!!!!
Got off the Pembroke-Rosslare ferry and within an hour we we just north of Wexford at the Trading Post Camper Park There was a small old pub a few yards away that served the best pint of Guiness I have had for years and the people were really friendly
On the Monday after waking up to snow!
We headed across country to a site just outside Killkenny Treegrove
It was a 25 minute walk into the town had a good look around and visited the castle and of course went for refreshments found a really good pub with a really helpful Irish barmaid unlike others who had foreign girls who struggled with English!
We then left on the Friday 11th and got to Camac Valley site just outside Dublin we stayed here till Monday as our daughter lives in the city. Although Dublin is very vibrant I am not a great lover of the city the place is over run with Eastern block people mostly Polish there were also a lot of foreign beggars. The good old Irish barman is disappearing very fast as this invasion takes over!! Never the less we had a good time and the site is very good and about an hour on the bus to the city centre 2 Euro eachway!
Then we travelled to my aunts farm in Mayo just outside Swinford had loads of relatives to see and my cousin allowed us to use his car so day trips to Castlebar, Ballina and Sligo were taken and in each town I'm sad to say staff at shops bars and even Pizza Hut were in the main eastern European! I must say I do admire these people for making a new life for them selves but it is so frustrating having to make yourselve understood in what is essentialy my home country!
My aunts farm, do you like the painwork?
It was our plan to travel down to Galway and further south but my aunt would not hear of us only spending a couple of days with them so we finally left on Sunday late afternoon to drive the 200 odd miles to Rosslare.
This was the first time to Ireland in the RV all in all a thoroughly enjoyable holiday the roads are very good with a few exceptions and driving the RV was not a problem all the sites we stayed on were very helpful with good facilities only one slight niggle why do some charge seperately for showers? The hook ups were fine and we did not trip one which I feel is quite good as most were rated at 6amp!
Forgot to add deisel over there is getting expensive for them anyway 1.26 Euro which makes it about just over a pound sterling!
Regards Pat
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