Going away for a few days

[Osc]

Tomorrow morning we head off down to Cobh in Co. Cork. There's a dance teacher there who asked us to his end of term social, so that's tomorrow night, and then there is another social dance on Saturday night. We are staying with my brother who lives in a flat overlooking where the people left to go on the Titanic, beautiful sea views. My two nieces and their hubbies are coming for dinner on Friday night and on Friday during the day, we may go to Fota Wild Life Park if the weather is nice. On Saturday we will just potter around and then home on Sunday. I've packed lots of stuff - well you know how it is when you are going in the car, there's room for loads AND the kitchen sink When there's dancing in the mix, that means dressing up clothes and dance shoes as well. Really looking forward to the few days away, goodness knows we don't get much time to relax

Tomorrow, May 23rd, is the first anniversary of our retirement - now where did that year go!!! Still loving every bit of it

[JoM]

A year already? That's really flown by Osc!

Have a lovely weekend, I remember seeing Cobh on something on TV and it looked absolutely beautiful

[miasmum]

Have a wonderful time both of you xxx

[Diflower]

Really Osc, a whole year already, that has sped by
Sounds like a particularly lovely few days ahead

[saundra]

hope you enjoy every miniute of it osc
a year already

[Ally]

Enjoy yourselves.

A year already??!!

I was thinking only a few munutes ago that it was a year today Don and I went to Seville and how quick it‘s gone.

[Kaz]

Osc that year has sped by! Enjoy your time away, it all sounds great

[Lozzles]

Enjoy your time away Osc, sounds like lots of fun. Take plenty of shoes

[Weka]

Have a fab time. Is Cobh and co a place or an establishment? Reason I ask is we have a chain of restaurants called cob and co, I always assumed it was established by someone called cob but now I'm not so sure.

[Osc]

Weka, Cobh is a place in Co. Cork - the Titanic left from there on its fateful first and last journey. It's a very historic place and was a British naval port for many years. Here's a little information about it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobh

If you look at the first picture on that page - move over left from the cathedral past the row of grey buildings to the first freestanding white building, and my brother lives in a flat on the top floor of that building with absolutely incredible views. My FB friends will have seen the photos I took yesterday morning as a cruise ship came in, we knew it was due and I woke around 5.20am thinking I could hear a tug going by. At 5.30am we could see the ship just coming past Roche's Point and it took almost 30 minutes to come in and moor up - we were at the open window photographing all the time, and trying not to wake my brother in the next room It was a lovely sight starting with the pink sky of early dawn and then almost full daylight by the time it was finished.

On Saturday, we walked to the Old Church Cemetery where some of the victims of the sinking of the Lusitania are buried, that was very interesting as there were lots of other graves of people who had died in shipping incidents and accidents and also the grave of Jack Doyle who was a boxer in the 1930s and known as the Gorgeous Gael, in later years he was a singer and a huge celebrity in his day - however he was also a drunk, and died destitute in London in 1978 when some generous benefactor brought him home to be buried in his native Cobh.

I was out for lunch today with a friend who told me that her grandfather had died on the Lusitania, isn't that a coincidence!