Catching Up May 25

Catching Up – May 25

I knew at some point that I would fall a bit behind in my blogs. And that has now happened. It's just about 9:00am here in Nenagh, County Tipperary, and we are soon to head down for breakfast. So I might just leave this to finish until we return from our travels today, as we will have this B&B for 2 more nights as our home base. It's so nice to stay in one place for a couple of nights.

Let me start the day we left Derry. From Derry we headed south to Belleek and the Belleek factory. We had done the tour before, but there are always new and different things to see in their china shop. I did pick up a couple of ornaments that I have started to collect over the years. After that it was straight to Sligo as we had a late start for the day leaving Derry at noon. Our B&B was outside of Sligo a way outside of Dromohair. But it was well worth it. Castle View B&B is on the side of a hill overlooking Lough Gill and full of beautiful views.

So we did have an interesting adventure that evening. It was about 7:00pm that we got settled into the B&B and then decided we needed to get some dinner. If you look up Park Castle on Lough Gill you will see where we were. Pretty much outside and 10-20 kms from any town. We headed toward Dromohair for some dinner and realized we had not check out gas gauge. It had one bar, and we were not sure how long it was like that. As it was Dromohair had no gas station, so we figured it was best to head to Sligo Town as the warning light came on to let us know we were pretty low on gas. Now we had another 20 Kms to get to Sligo as we had gone the long way around the lough. Needless to say, we did arrive at a petrol station on the edge of Sligo just in time to fill up.

To add to all of that, we were now far away from the suggested dinner place and ended up eating dinner at a KFC! As hungry as I was the chicken sandwich and chips were a welcome meal. I think it was between 9:30 and 10:00 before we arrived back at the B&B and were exhausted from all that driving. :)