Summer Holiday

8th June – Pembroke to Rosslare

Ended up going to bed at 21:45 as we were both falling asleep – obviously the walk and sea air.

Slept amazingly well as someone clearly muffled the sheep that had been bleating all evening.

Tina got her lie in; well till 08:15 anyway, but as we went to bed so early I think that was pretty good.

Had porridge for breakfast and spent a leisurely morning reading and pottering around before departing for the ferry port.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Panic, as we reached the top of the hill from the campsite we both received texts to say Alex had locked himself out of the house – immediate thought is that we will have to head home and let him back in.

Telephone him and he’s just got back in having spent the night at Tom’s and phoned a locksmith who managed to open the door without damaging it but nonetheless charging him £63 – that’ll teach him. Panic over.

Head for Pembroke docks for the ferry and get there just after twelve for a 14:30 sailing – so I go and buy a paper and end up walking to Asda over a mile away & get seduced by the promotional offer on fruit scones (50p) but then need to buy extra thick cream and jam – only went for the paper and OK – why are we so focussed on celebrities?

Get back to the docks and shortly afterwards we go through to the ‘staging area’ and then board. Head straight for the restaurant for lunch and have sandwiches and chips – great chips. Then laze around for three and a bit hours until we arrive in Rosslare, on the way we debated how far is the horizon away and is there a range of distances dependent on the curvature of the earth – gosh we know how to have fun on holiday – but a really interesting thought when you are half way across the Irish Sea.

Arrive at Rosslare and the sat nav GPS co-ordinates don’t work, nor does typing in POI – Camping so we resort to the directions and it seems that they have long kilometres in Ireland; anyway find the campsite, ahead of about 4 others and just as we settle on our pitch the heavens open – Tina was right it’s Ireland and it’s going to rain a lot.