about 8 years later.....

We're going BACK again!!

soon we'll be heading off to France again .. whoo hoo!

Can't wait to see Dad (Jean-Louis) and Marie-France again (it's been far too long)!!

Other people and places we are planning to visit are:

Gerard and Francoise at Aix
Annie at Lyon
Mum and Dad's gite in Gouarec
Shell and Harv in Ludlow
.... and we hope to meet some more online friends IRL too!

Today I have been researching Gluten-free (sans gluten) eating in Paris and finding some yummy places we will have to try out!

more later :D

turn back time - photos of Dublin!!

LIFFEY RIVER

Lois' work - Irish church Missions... we had a bit of trouble finding it as the taxi driver dropped us off on "Bachelor's walk" but actually it was a block away and a different street name!! oops!

espresso? in Dublin!

Bus ride - City tour of Dublin!!
Guy and Lois on the bus :)

BUTLERS CHOCOLATE CAFE!!!
Actually the soy hot chocolate was pretty good.. .couldn't taste the soy!

Rainy day in Dublin! But look how green the grass is and take a look at Sir Guy in the chain mail at Dublinia!!

Lois's place???

actually - this is a castle, just in the next suburb! Wow! We had coffee there after dinner on Thursday night! oooh...very swish! :)

THIS IS LOIS'S PLACE!!!

AND HER STREET

Bright and early = 4am (Dublin time) as we waited for the taxi to take us to the airport
(Lois it cost about E15)

Home!!

We're all home safe and sound!!!!

Its nice to be Home especially after more than 48 hrs of planes and transit lounges.

We'll write a more detailed de-brief at a later stage :)

See ya'll

a day in Dublin

We went into dublin City today with Lois and went on a bus tour... http://www.dublinbus.ie/sightseeing/index.aspx

Rainy and cold....

Nice sights...

Loved Butlers Hot chocolates!!
Back at Lois's today...

Tomorrow we get a cab at 4am - go to airport, fly to Nice at 6.20
wait there for a while, catch our plane home at 3.30ish...and then it starts...

Nice - Rome

Rome -Dubai (7 hours in the airport... shopping?? perhaps - it will be 1am there)

Dubai - Bangkok - probably a repeat of the trip here - get off in Bangkok - walk through teh airport, security checka nd back on the plane

Bancock - Sydney!!!!!! Yay!!! We'll be home at 7.45 am Sunday morning!!!! :)

(so we're out of action for the next 2 days.. will post a few dublin photos from home!!)

See you soon!!!

hallo Dublin

We arrived here finally!

Long delays waiting for the plane to arrive ...but we got here! YAY!!! nice to see Lois!

Tomorrow we go on a bus tour of Dublin... should be good!

See ya!!

Farewell Paris

We almost had a coffee here