Author Archives: lynnefrancophile

This year it seems that the whole world has decided Christmas starts on the first day of December, factually the first day of metrological winter. As someone who prefers to leave a decent interval between Guy Fawkes and the festive … Continue reading →

Our day started reasonably calmly with time for breakfast before we took our farewell from Callum, our friendly hotel manager from Norfolk, and went out to look for a taxi. Callum has told us the day before there was no … Continue reading →

We might have left Dublin but the holiday wasn’t over. As we were travelling back the way we had arrived we had to go through London again and it seemed sensible to stop and meet up with our two sons. … Continue reading →

Leaving St Audoen’s we walked down Lower Bridge street to the Liffy passing the Brazen Head public house, the oldest pub in Ireland. The present building was constructed in 1754 as a coaching inn but a hostelry has stood on … Continue reading →

With nothing in particular planned we had a lazy start to our last day. We hadn’t visited various ‘must see’ sights preferring to wander at will absorbing the atmosphere of the city. However, online I had come across a short … Continue reading →

We woke up to blue skies and sunshine and a forecast that said it would stay for the day with maybe a few showers in the afternoon. So it was off to Trinity college retracing our steps from the morning … Continue reading →

As if to prove the veracity of all those doom merchants who warned me it would rain while we were in Dublin…it did! I woke up early and heard it lashing against the window of our room. Bum! Not even … Continue reading →

One thing I did while waiting was go and talk to the girl in the ticket office. I’d had an email saying the train we were booked on for the return Holyhead/Euston was no longer running. She checked online and … Continue reading →

Another 7am alarm call as our train from Euston was 10.02am. In the event we were sat waiting ages before the platform announcement which only came ten minutes before departure. Then it was platform 2 at the far end of … Continue reading →