Grindley Brook

At Grindley Brook we found a garage next to the lock selling diesel at 58p a litre. Ian then got his 20 litre jerry can out and filled our tank with trips to and fro to the garage to save us a few pence further up! After about a hour of this we decided that enough was enough and although our tank wasn't full we would see if we could find a marina that was selling diesel as cheap but with less strain on the back.
Staircase locks.

Red sky in morning

Spectacular sky. Is it shepherds warning?

Wrenbury

Lift bridge at Wrenbury is motorised and Ian had to stop the traffic to allow us to go through. I'm sure it gives Ian immense pleasure to stop the rush hour traffic for us to slowly meander through.

At the hotel Cairndale

Our Ireland adventure had begun. We were officially on Shelia's Gadabout tour, We met the coach at 9.30am at the Ramada Jarvis on junction 25 of the M1. This is some of us at the first hotel in Scotland before we left for North Ireland.

Who's the poser's

Don't we make a handsome couple. ( Okay were only joking )

On the ferry

We left Stranrar and caught the 11 am ferry for Ireland. As it was a high speed ferry the journey across only took us an hour and a half.

Waiting for our guide at the Causeway

Dennis just had to get in the picture again!!

Giants Causeway

This was one of our excursion while in North Ireland. The weather was glorious and the walk to the stones was brilliant.



Photo Shoot with some of the "Gadabouts"

Onwards and Upwards

After the walk to the Causeway some of our party decided to climb the 162 steps to the top to admire the views. Are we mad or what!!!!

Views

The views from the top were fantastic. Well worth the climb to the top.

Shanklin Road

While we were in Belfast we took an open bus tour down the Shanklin Road. The paintings on the side of the houses depicted the feelings during the Northern Ireland conflict.

By the canal at Enniskillen

Enjoying a picnic with Margaret,Dennis, Carole, Mick and Ian

Ramada Jarvis Hotel Helipad

Wheres my chopper gone?

Ramada Jarvis Hotel

This was a fabulous hotel. We spent two nights here. Food great, rooms great and hot tub fabulous as you can see by the enjoyment of some of the "Gadabouts".

Donegal Castle

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Lord of the Castle

Dissused Locks at Parkwest

While we were waiting to board our coach to take us to the Port we walked to these locks on the Grand Canal.

waiting for the ferry at Dunloghaire

Just made it

. We had all had breakfast and had put our bags on the coach in readiness for catching our ferry back to Holyhead when Shelia informed us that Carole and Mick couldn't get back into there room to fetch the last of there luggage. Apparently the lock wasn't reading the key card so the manager was called and after a lot of head scratching decided that they would have to send for the assistant manager who had the master card that would bypass the locking mechanism. As time was tight the decision was made for thew rest of the coach party to proceed to the ferry port without Carole and Mick and hope that the assistant manager would get them into the room and then to the ferry in time. When the coach reached Dublin Port we were informed that without the two missing passengers we wouldn't be allowed to board the ship. These picture are of Carole and Mick arriving with minutes to spare. They did manage to get into the room but only after destroying the room door!!!