The day started very early this morning as we dropped Paddy at Wexford Hospital. He needed to be there by 7.45am so we left Gorey at 6.45am.
The sunrise was magnificent, except when it was right in your eyes!! I'm not often up at that time to experience it...!!
Once we had dropped Paddy off we tried to find a coffee shop open in Wexford, but to no avail. Apart from that we couldn't find any parking spots, so we didn't even stop there.
If you would like to see some pics of Wexford, check out my blog from 2018.
So we headed back to Gorey and to the Dunnes Shopping Centre and hit the first coffee shop called Insomnia, which is quite a big coffee chain in Ireland.
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| Insomnia Coffee |
Not all the shops were open yet, but Dunnes had just opened so we picked up a few things then. I tried to buy a bottle of wine for dinner tonight, but they are not allowed to sell wine before 10.30am so I had to put it back!!!
After all that busy start to the day, it was time for a quick nap so I headed home to the hotel.
This afternoon we decided to go back to Dunnes to put the bottles into the recycling machine. It then issues a credit which you can claim when shopping at Dunnes.
Now little smart a**e me thought I now knew my way to Dunnes having been there this morning. Once again, pride cometh before the fall..
But... somehow I missed the turn off and ended up going the wrong way down a one way street.!!! A very nice young Irish lady gently pointed this out to me, and the other cars allowed me to back out. How embarrassing!!! Actually the Irish drivers are generally very generous and let you in through the traffic... not like our Aussie ones who are more than likely to tell you where to go!!!
I was a bit stressed by the time we actually got to Dunnes. I don't think I could cope with Irish traffic on a full time basis!!! The roads are narrow with cars parked along the side and it can be a bit scary playing dodgem!!!
BTW... I picked up that bottle of wine this arvo.. just to soothe my fractured nerves!!
So that's all today's news..
But I wanted to add in one thing from Lahinch that I left out....
One day Patrick started singing a song called Joseph McHugh and it tells the story of a pub in Liscannor owned by this Joe McHugh.
So Marie took me there for my half pint of Smithwicks one night.
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| Joseph McHugh's Pub in Liscannor. |
Thanks for exposing me to a bit more of the Clare culture, Patrick!
