Travelog for: Nana

That isn't our ferry

A nice cosy chair for the journey.

Goodbye Holyhead

The reason for the voyage....

is to attend the Postcrossing meeting in Dublin! Here we are at the postcard session.

We also wandered around the exhibition at the main post office, about communications...

Some exhibits

Stamps!

On a writing bureau with touchscreen display.... reading about St. Patrick

and the middle page is extracts of letters, translated.

A letter from Jonathan Swift.

A blunderbuss

A uniform

This is the building we are in.

And this is the post office itself.

After the meet, there was time to wander around the city.

Crossing the River Liffey

Dublin Castle

Nice looking building

And we wandered around the gardens by the castle.

Statue of Molly Malone, wheeling a cart of cockles and mussels, perhaps.

Monument of O'Connell, at the head of the street named after him.

A bridge we'll walk across

There are padlocks on the bridge, as a symbol for love.

The sun is setting...

Padlocks again.


Statue of Molly Malone, was too busy earlier to get a group shot

Time to relax on the tram..

I wonder where we'll go...

The tram stops outside the Guinness brewery.

We didn't get a chance to taste some before we had to head home.

Dublin tired us all out, until now.... and we find ourselves...

In a posh hotel....

Driving through...

Scotland

Arrived at a caravan but have a little bit of time before we need to get shopping in for the week so...

Lindisfarne. That is a castle.

Lindisfarne is a tidal island, and those poles mark a pilgrim's way across from the mainland.

Today we have come to look round Lindisfarne Castle

Because yesterday there wasn't enough time.

It is quite cosy inside..

It isn't dinner time (yet).


A nice cosy bed..

Writing bureau

Model of the castle.

Room for music..

Today, we went to Berwick upon Tweed.

There is a geocache near this information board about the artist Lowry.

A nice clock

We've come to a museum

This is a pictoral map of the area.

The museum is on a honey farm, and there are lots of bee-themed exhibits.

About honeybees.

Inside a hive...

more on beekeeping

Nice baskets..

There is also a vintage section to the museum. An old typewriter..

and vacuum cleaners and....

It is a corner shop.

Some interesting items here.

Old kettles and pans.

A lot of matchboxes.

A lot of bottles.

This is Chain Bridge, and it gives its name to the honey farm. And across the river is Scotland.

The bridge crosses the River Tweed

We'll walk across it....

And be welcomed into Scotland!

A boat trip....

That is a lighthouse over there on one of the Farne Islands.

There could be seals over there.

We are on Inner Farne.

There's another boat.

After the boat trip, we came further down the coast.

That is Dunstanburgh Castle.

Where shall we go today?

We've come up to Scotland, to look at their National Mining Museum.

We've come inside the equipment shed.

That's a battery.

A telephone thing.


This is a Lilly controller

A transformer.



Look at the teeth on that cutter thing.


Now we've come to look round the museum.

Some stuff.

Where shall we go today?

How about a quiet day in the caravan?