Best laid plans…

In Shannon for Tuesday. Free day, with plans to visit Bunratty Castle and Folk Park. Monday overnight, however, brings wind, sleet, and lashing rain at 3 AM, along with whistling and moaning at the hotel windows. This continues into the morning and afternoon, periods of rain and chill, punctuated by brief intervals of sunshine.

April brings the sweet spring showers, on and on for hours and hours.

The Castle offers an evening of “medieval banquet and entertainment”, but no availability, and the Folk Park is a collection of buildings from the past, but mostly outdoors exhibits. Not this trip, but perhaps a future trip

Instead we walk across to the airport to greet incoming tour group members, and otherwise hole up in the hotel, eating, drinking (but not to excess), socializing, playing cards and dice, napping, and blogging. Oh, and chicken curry, one of our favorites here, as long as we don’t lie down too soon afterwards.