Isobel and Harry on the bus to the airport
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
Fred in his Spiderman top at the departure gate
Fred trundles his Trunki up to the plane
The queue to board at Stansted
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
Lambay Island, and Malahide in Ireland
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 lonely 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 gets the wrong end of the brush
Harry gives a look
Isobel and Harry at Number 19
Harry plays a mini keyboard
Fred and Isobel share a cuddle on the sofa
Haryanna and Analua
Lua and Fred do playdoh
Harry eats something
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
Another view of the flooded band stand
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
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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
The queue to board at Stansted
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
Lambay Island, and Malahide in Ireland
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 lonely 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 gets the wrong end of the brush
Harry gives a look
Isobel and Harry at Number 19
Harry plays a mini keyboard
Fred and Isobel share a cuddle on the sofa
Haryanna and Analua
Lua and Fred do playdoh
Harry eats something
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
Another view of the flooded band stand
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