holiday showdowns

here is a basic overview of my now completed holiday
day one is in the previous post

day two
woke up bright and early at half ten in the morning, got a good hearty half-bowl of rice krispies, and sat down to eat.

the rest of the morning was spent wandering around and making sandwiches for the journey ahead.

an hour-or-so drives later - we arrived at our picnic spot, lough name missing. after relaxing, eating and taking a few pics of the area; we went for a walk around the lough before finally setting off home.

day three
yesterday we spent all our time in the countryside, today we spent out time (and money) in the big city. after the long 45 minute tram ride from the suburbs to the centre, we wandered aimessly around for a while until about 1pm. then we went to a small food court - i got a chicken panini and everyone else decided to go to this instanbul food place.

after that we wandered around aimlessly again and went home.

day four
frobably the worst day of the holiday, the day we were due to come back; but not for that reason.

we left out little, suburbian adobe and travelled back to the city, where we subsequently got lost and arrived at port at 11:15, 5 minutes later than required - only to find out our high speed ferry was out of service because of bad weather. we got transferred to another slower ferry due to leave at 9 o'clock that night.

so, with another day on our hands we wandered the city. buying yet more stuff and eventually returned to port at 4. then fell asleep.

we were now returning on the ulysses, a ship that we (ironically) were laughing at when we overtook them on the original journey. after exploring the ship i fell asleep for the last hour of the voyage.

day five (kind of)
at midnight we returned to our cars, only to be confronted with an obviously drunk man screaming his head off. his removal delayed us by another 45 mins.

and for the rest of the journey back to manchester, i slept - we arrived home at 3:10 this morning.