Good morning! Well, today I am having some issues walking so I decided to take a pass on the day tour today and instead go for a massage and swim/hot tub lounging in the hotel spa! Andrew went on the trip to Mass Rock, the Holy Well at Tobernault and Mullaghmore to see Donegal Bay. On the way back, they visited Parke’s Castle, in County Leitrim, which is a restored plantation castle of the early 17th century that was once home to Robert Plante and his family. So we will be looking at his photo’s today as I only took the first one… the rest in this series are the ones Andrew took walking around the castle when he got back from the tour.
In the meantime I had a lovely massage and then went and sat in the underground pool where I took a dip and also sat in the hot tub. Then I relaxed on a lovely lawn chair and was knitting away until the spa lady who had brought me down in the elevator, came to retrieve me as there was going to be a wedding in the castle, and I needed to get back to my room (which I knew about) – I had lost track of time in the blue relaxing atmosphere of the pool area! So quickly I got dressed and up the temporary ramp they had put down for me and through the hotel and back to our room! Unfortunately the internet was so slow I could not be productive that afternoon so I just listened to a book and napped until Andrew came back.
Now, lets see what trouble he got into today! I later found out that it was a GOOD day that I chose to remain at the hotel as it was quite physical (with no warning) and my walker would not have worked. I would have been quite frustrated if I had left my crutches at the castle and gone on the trip with my walker!
Now back at Kilronan Castle, Andrew decided to take some more pictures of the area before our dinner hour.
After our devine dinner, we were back in our room, and I as usual had fallen asleep, when the wedding in house set off fireworks! Here is the display –
Now after that noise – getting back to sleep was an issue! Oh well, the nice comfy bed eventually did me in and we were looking forward to tomorrow where we get to visit Galway – one of the places we will be going back to on our trip in Ireland.
Here is the drive that Andrew took in the bus today:
