18th June – Rosslare – St. David’s
Up early at 06:30 to catch the ferry. Slept terribly.
Arrived at ferry port around 07:30 and rolled on to ferry a little after 8, then straight up to the restaurant for a cooked breakfast and toast. Txtd Dan who was at T5 waiting to go off to Boston.
Uneventful crossing but took longer than scheduled due to tides and we docked about 13:00 and then disembarked heading for St. David’s. En route stopped off at Scovla [?] for lunch a beautiful harbour in a valley and had a very nice meal at ‘The Old Pharmacy’ Tina had lasagne and the most wonderful chips whilst I had roasted vegetables and tagliatelle – delicious – all that was missing was a nice glass of wine.
Spoke with Al, all is well and told him that we would more than likely be home tomorrow. [Friday]
Reached St. David’s and visited the Cathedral – very odd mix of architecture and structural very off centre the floors were sloping and all the pillars seemed off perpendicular, however as there were no guided tours we are none the wiser as to why this is so. [Note to self look up on internet on return.]
Left St. David’s and headed for campsite down narrower and narrower roads forcing an elderly gent to reverse his Volvo back 50 yards to allow us to pass. Entered the wrong campsite and after realising this almost collided with some youngsters careering around in a VW, said youths looked thoroughly bemused when Tina responded to their wave with the ‘finger’.
Campsite is a level field with lots and lots of people – this is supposed to be the quiet season and I am already missing the small, ‘bijou’ campsites of Ireland.
Up early at 06:30 to catch the ferry. Slept terribly.
Arrived at ferry port around 07:30 and rolled on to ferry a little after 8, then straight up to the restaurant for a cooked breakfast and toast. Txtd Dan who was at T5 waiting to go off to Boston.
Uneventful crossing but took longer than scheduled due to tides and we docked about 13:00 and then disembarked heading for St. David’s. En route stopped off at Scovla [?] for lunch a beautiful harbour in a valley and had a very nice meal at ‘The Old Pharmacy’ Tina had lasagne and the most wonderful chips whilst I had roasted vegetables and tagliatelle – delicious – all that was missing was a nice glass of wine.
Spoke with Al, all is well and told him that we would more than likely be home tomorrow. [Friday]
Reached St. David’s and visited the Cathedral – very odd mix of architecture and structural very off centre the floors were sloping and all the pillars seemed off perpendicular, however as there were no guided tours we are none the wiser as to why this is so. [Note to self look up on internet on return.]
Left St. David’s and headed for campsite down narrower and narrower roads forcing an elderly gent to reverse his Volvo back 50 yards to allow us to pass. Entered the wrong campsite and after realising this almost collided with some youngsters careering around in a VW, said youths looked thoroughly bemused when Tina responded to their wave with the ‘finger’.
Campsite is a level field with lots and lots of people – this is supposed to be the quiet season and I am already missing the small, ‘bijou’ campsites of Ireland.
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