11th June – Dublin to Newgrange to Roscommon
Depart Dublin after a pretty crap nights sleep but fortunately the ‘bikers’ were as good as gold. After they had set up their tents they went off and we didn’t hear them return, though they were up bright and early as we were.
Head round the M50 and then up to Slane as Newgrange is not on the sat nav.
Find Newgrange relatively easily and park in the coach park.
There is a nice new visitor centre and we decide to do both Newgrange and Knowth – two separate megalithic monuments – [http://www.knowth.com/newgrange.htm].
These are impressive monuments especially the rising sun effect in Newgrange – very impressive. But they do have a very bizarre bus system to take you from the visitor centre out to each of the monuments – they go at set times and are very strict about this and you have to go to one monument and then back to the visitor centre before catching another bus at the prescribed time to the other one.
Have some lunch as it is now about 14:00, we’ve been here over three hours so it looks like we will have to give Clonmacnoise a miss today and head straight to the campsite at Lough Ree.
Gosh the roads in Ireland are dreadful and it’s quite a trek to the first option campsite by which time Tina has a headache – not quite a migraine but she is suffering. We decide that we don’t like the looks of the first campsite and plug the next one in to the sat nav and head off. The second one (Hodson Bay) is just past a lovely hotel, golf course and water sports centre but is closed! What are we going to do? Perhaps stay at the hotel?
We have one more campsite to try and head off – we find this down a long stretch of road and great it’s open and they have some spare pitches – it is also in a fantastic location right by the Lough shores and very peaceful – until it appears that every youngster in the area likes to drive down this road to the shore, ‘dump a body’ hang around for a short while and then wheel spin off – it really is quite odd there must have been half a dozen or more cars drive down to this complete dead end, spend a few minutes there and head back.
Anyway we have a lovely evening sitting out in the sun, no breeze, pleasantly warm
Cook dinner, quiche, fried tats, shallots and bacon and a small glass of wine.
Tina has recovered enough to enjoy dinner.
It’s a beautiful evening, only spoilt by the tooing and froing of cars down to the waters edge.
Depart Dublin after a pretty crap nights sleep but fortunately the ‘bikers’ were as good as gold. After they had set up their tents they went off and we didn’t hear them return, though they were up bright and early as we were.
Head round the M50 and then up to Slane as Newgrange is not on the sat nav.
Find Newgrange relatively easily and park in the coach park.
There is a nice new visitor centre and we decide to do both Newgrange and Knowth – two separate megalithic monuments – [http://www.knowth.com/newgrange.htm].
These are impressive monuments especially the rising sun effect in Newgrange – very impressive. But they do have a very bizarre bus system to take you from the visitor centre out to each of the monuments – they go at set times and are very strict about this and you have to go to one monument and then back to the visitor centre before catching another bus at the prescribed time to the other one.
Have some lunch as it is now about 14:00, we’ve been here over three hours so it looks like we will have to give Clonmacnoise a miss today and head straight to the campsite at Lough Ree.
Gosh the roads in Ireland are dreadful and it’s quite a trek to the first option campsite by which time Tina has a headache – not quite a migraine but she is suffering. We decide that we don’t like the looks of the first campsite and plug the next one in to the sat nav and head off. The second one (Hodson Bay) is just past a lovely hotel, golf course and water sports centre but is closed! What are we going to do? Perhaps stay at the hotel?
We have one more campsite to try and head off – we find this down a long stretch of road and great it’s open and they have some spare pitches – it is also in a fantastic location right by the Lough shores and very peaceful – until it appears that every youngster in the area likes to drive down this road to the shore, ‘dump a body’ hang around for a short while and then wheel spin off – it really is quite odd there must have been half a dozen or more cars drive down to this complete dead end, spend a few minutes there and head back.
Anyway we have a lovely evening sitting out in the sun, no breeze, pleasantly warm
Cook dinner, quiche, fried tats, shallots and bacon and a small glass of wine.
Tina has recovered enough to enjoy dinner.
It’s a beautiful evening, only spoilt by the tooing and froing of cars down to the waters edge.
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