It's Friday, it must be Waterford

Well whirlwind describes this tour exactly. We headed off from London on Wednesday and visited Stonehenge, Salisbury and Bath. Highlights were the cathedral in Salisbury and, of curse, Bath. An important destination for any Jane Austen fan. We then went back to Cardiff to visit the Castle, I'd deliberately left this I off my itinerary on my visit to Cardiff the previous weekend. After the castle we set off on what was supposed to be about 3 hours of driving and four hours of ferry crossing. Unfortunately the horrible weather meant we were delayed at the ferry for over three hours. When we did eventually cross it was pretty rough, thank goodness for Kwells and ginger biscuits. Subsequently we didn't reach Ireland till 9.30 and I was so tired that I forgot that we were driving right by Wexford, the home of some of my ancestors. The hotel at Waterford kept the kitchen open so we could have dinner at 10.30. We are off shortly to see the Waterford crystal factory then on to Dublin where I'm looking forward to two nights in the same hotel.