521 miles and 11 hours of driving we arrive

We decided to drive to Ballyferriter for this holiday. Many reasons, remind ourselves how long it was, going for 7 weeks one needs a lot of stuff and we had some nice memorable items from my Mum's flat that we wanted to keep as well as a couple pieces of furniture that would come in handy. Therefore taking the car made sense and once we gathered all the items together we thought oh la la that's not all going to fit in the car and we bought a roof box.

The roof box purchase was a little bit of a saga, these things always are when you purchase it from eBay, the seller is Mick's Garage in Ireland and they tell you they are out of stock when you make the purchase. But sure not to worry they'll get it too you.  We waited and waited and they were extremely nice keeping us informed and we waited. Then as we leave for a long weekend in Ireland they announce it will be delivered tomorrow. No problem we thought there's no way the delivery driver will leave a roof box on our front drive when we are not home.

To be fair he didn't leave it on our front drive but with our neighbours across the road. I knew this because Soon Mui texted me to say they've taken in a delivery for us. Aagghh I say oh dear that was not meant to happen and can you hold that huge enormous box in your hall way until we are back in 4 days.... The lovely people that they are they said yes. When chatting with her afterwards turns out the driver had knocked on her door and asked could he leave the box with her and she thinking it was just a normal box said sure of course. It was only when she saw him dragging the large box up the drive did she think, umm maybe I should have said no.

Monday morning, we'd stayed over until the Monday so we could go to the Mens final at Wimbledon. Monday at 6am we hit the road and before we know it we are zipping along the start of the M40. In fact about an hour and ten minutes after setting off. And the rest of the journey is just as smooth and before we know it we are on Anglesey with a few hours to spare.

Anglesey is a place that one would normally zip through, it is Wales after all. But with 2 hours to spare and a coast road we thought lets explore. The weather was fantastic and beaches busy... not.

It made for a lovely way to arrive at Holyhead for the boat but all the more difficult to cope with a busy boat with many noisy screaming kids who were clearly hyper after a holiday.

Arrival in Dublin at 7.30pm and into the flat by 8pm.

An early start the following morning and off we headed to Ballyferriter. And 521 miles later and 11 hours of driving we were opening the gates, parking up and unloading the car.
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