We are just back in France after our longest holiday in Ireland since we came here in ’08/’09.
It was a bit of a job lot, over a period of three weeks we tried- and sometimes failed- to see as many old friends and relations as we could. This gave us a punishing schedule encompassing Dublin, Mullingar, Thomastown, Waterford and Cork. Punishing, only in the amount of times we had to travel, meeting the people was a delight- as was spending the first night in 24 in our own bed last night.

Picture is the Viaduct of Garabit. Pictured from a rest air off the motorway (we drove this time) in the Auvergne where we took this on our way up to Cherbourg. Designed by one M.Eiffel as a practical work after his radio mast in Paris it was, in its time(1842), the tallest railway bridge in the world. Still in use, we hope to take the train which passes over next year.