Day Sixteen – Monday, 28 May 2012
St Davids – Wexford, Ireland
Accommodation – The Maple Lodge, Castlebridge
Weather – sunny
Temperature – mid twenties
Today was a day of travel from Wales to Ireland. We left St Davids after a slow start as it
was only a little way to Fishguard and its nearby port.
Fishguard is quite small, so unless we missed the main
shopping area, we drove back to the port area and bought a paper, some
sandwiches and joined the queue for the ferry to Rosslare.
We waited for two hours before boarding and I had a great
time just reading and drinking coffee.
The voyage was very smooth however the temperature inside
was freezing – so I had a choice, either freeze or sit up higher. After a long snooze I chose to sit up on a
higher deck and feel the swaying vessel.
Those travel pills did the trick and I felt fine.
It was a smooth disembarking, no passport checks and we were
in Ireland. We were soon to discover
there were a few differences!
The accommodation we had booked to make life easier on arrival could not be found and we only had
co-ordinates locked into our GPS. It
does help to have the correct co-ordinates locked in – but still we couldn’t
find it. Eventually, I saw a sign out of
the corner of my eye as we were driving along the main road.
Our lovely hostess (later confirmed at the pub) said there
were no street addresses – just co-ordinates as everyone knows each other…..just
ask if you can’t find a place. I asked
the waiter at the pub how does the postman know where to deliver mail to which
he replied that he knew everyone!
Welcome to Ireland!
We had a toast at the Riverbank Hotel in Wexford – a Guinness
and a sav blanc and are looking forward to a great time in Ireland.
A short walk around Wexford riverwalk ended our first afternoon in the Emerald Isle.
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