A Trip to Monkstown Farm and Blackrock, County Dublin, Ireland - 2nd January 2014

Following a quiet Christmas at home, it's time to head over the Irish Sea to visit Fred and Harry's various uncles, aunts and cousins in Monkstown and Blackrock, County Dublin. Having a large supply of willing baby-sitters means we even get to go out in the evening a couple of times.

next album: Dun Laoghaire and an Electrical Disaster, Monkstown, County Dublin, Ireland - 4th January 2014
previous album: The BBs Do New Year's Eve at the Barrel, Banham, Norfolk - 31st December 2013

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Isobel and Harry on the bus to the airport

Isobel and Harry on the bus to the airport

Fred in his Spiderman top at the departure gate

Fred trundles his Trunki up to the plane

A Ruinair 737-800

Fred and Harry mill around

Fred wearily trudges up the steps

A view of a very blue resevoir

A field full of H's

A midlands town somewhere

Harry - baby Gabey - flops around

The town of Robswalls

Massed car parks near Dublin Airport

Dublin's new Terminal 2, seen on final approach

Isobel and Harry - ready to land

The old terminal building and tower

The hell that is buggy retrieval on the tarmac

Harry is inserted in to his buggy

Harry waits in a corridor at Dublin Airport

Fred sits on his Trunki

Isobel wanders the empty corridors

Harry in the lift

More deserted passages

Fred roams around the baggage hall

Fred and Harry wait for the bags to turn up

Harry gets stuck in to a load of new toys

Fred's home-made Christmas card

Harry opens a present

We eat some sort of buffet

Fred eats ice cream

Harry's got some ice cream on his face

Fred is Super Hero

The bar at the Dark Horse

Noddy gets the beers in

€6.60 for a pint of Punk IPA is a shock

Walking around Dun Laoghaire

Harry's not quite got the hang of toothbrushes

Isobel and Harry at Number 19

Harry plays a mini keyboard

Fred and Isobel share a cuddle on the sofa

Haryanna and Annalua

Lua and Fred do playdoh

Harry and Lua look up to big brother/cousin Fred

Nosher makes a hotdog out of Play-Doh

Fred and Noddy in the Blackrock Centre car park

Isobel and Noddy inspect the menu in Eddy Rocket's

Haryana looks up

Neon lights

Fred roams around

We de-camp from Eddy Rocket's in Blackrock

The bandstand in Blackrock park is under water

A dog has a swim

Graffiti on a wall

A DART train at Blackrock station

Sea-wall graffiti

Blackrock Lido is overwhelmed by sea

'Dulux: let's colour' seems to be everywhere

Occasional waves explode over the sea wall

More remains of the lido

Dulux Let's Colour Project graffiti

A million crushed sea shells

A detail in rust

Harry looks nonplussed

Harry looks at Lua's 'Hollywood' shades

The cousins - Annalua, Harry, Fern and Fred

Poolbeg generating station, aka The Winkies

Graffiti on the DART bridge in Blackrock Park

Gulls feast on dead worms killed by the floods

It's like a scene from Hitchcock's The Birds

Floods both sides of the wall

A floating road cone