After leaving Gunns camp Laura and I did the first couple of hours work of the Routeburn. It is one of the great walks – but we were up early enough and so didn’t see anyone else (until we started down again). Snow down to 600m (and this is summer!)
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We picked up Nati – Laura’s travelling friend (another German) – in Queenstown..
…and headed on to Wanaka. There we went to Cinema Paradiso (lease runs out in a year :( ) and saw Tara Road. A Maeve Binchy film. The last time I was there with John Loane and Maeve we saw intermission. Two visits.. two Irish films. Odd to say the least.
Mind you, I had to laugh when they drove effortlessly through the city centre of Dublin at about 3pm.. that’s certainly not how I remember it… and I quote from today’s Irish Times..
The National Roads Authority (NRA) has acknowledged that a section of the M50 ring road in Dublin will have to close completely for about four nights, most likely before Christmas, as work begins on upgrading overhead bridges into “free-flow” interchanges.
The work at the N4 junction will close the motorway beneath the junction’s twin bridges.
It is a move that is likely to cause frustration for late evening commuters and late-night shoppers.
and a letter….
Madam, – Hard to believe that the toll on the M50 is to increase yet again. It occurred to me that it is time for hard-pressed motorists to protest. One suggestion of a suitable method would be for motorists to converge on the M50 in their thousands and block it for hours. But then I realised that this already happens every day. Any more bright ideas? – Yours etc, –
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A friend back in my Openet days in Dublin – Peter – had a great suggestion for a toll protest. Everyone arrive to the toll with 100Euro notes. And demand to pay in cash… they’d soon run out of change and have to open the barriers. Seems like a damn good idea to me.
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