Trip to date

Well.. it’s 36 hours door to door – and knackered upon arrival. It’s been hectic and fun being back in Ireland – but certainly haven’t had the easiest time of getting over the jetlag. It’s hard when you’re up chatting until midnight or later most nights.

Just going to put a slideshow up – there’s not enough hours in the day to write everything up properly… but .. highlights / observations so far:

1. LA from overhead is a monstrous amount of concrete
2. American Department of Homeland security (theatre) has become even more intrusive
3. Easter egg hunts are still fun

These pictures are from Easter Sunday lunch – and a trip down to Glendalough. There’s still snow on the ground (which is not very like Ireland!).

One thing I will say – we went to Easter Vigil mass (9pm on the Sat) and the priest gave an amazingly heartfelt and personal sermon. The entire place erupted into spontaneous applause when he finished. Basically he said that everyone had been entirely let down by the bureaucracy of the church – and that he and others were extremely disappointed.

We’ll see, as in the words of our B&B Landlady (for Keiths Wedding.. another story to come) Ireland has had a crisis in the government, the church, the economy and the really awful winter. Still, perhaps some reinventing of the “way things are” will come out of it all.