Harry messes around at Stansted Airport
Sion Hill and Blackrock for the Day, Dublin, Ireland - 17th September 2016
It's a late flight out on a Friday and an early flight back on Sunday morning for Isobel's 20-year reunion at Sion Hill Dominican convent school in Blackrock, County Dublin. As part of the event, a tour of the school has been arranged, and following that we head off to meet up at Duffy's circus, which is parked up at nearby Dun Laoghaire. We round off the evening with a nosh-up at Mao's, whilst Isobel heads out on the lash with thirty or so of her former school chums.
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One of the departure waiting areas at Stansted
We're off to the departure gate at around 10pm
Hanging out in Da Gorls' lounge
Lua and Harry
Isobel and Evelyn pose with Harry and Fred
The boys with Evelyn
A famberly photo
Fred and Evelyn on the bridge over the DART
Fred on the rope pyramid
Isobel roams around
Heading over the DART railway to the sea
Evelyn is looking forward to a swim in Dublin Bay
Fred and Harry look on
Evelyn and Isobel head into the sea
Isobel towels off
Fred waves to a passing DART train
Hanging around by the sea wall
Spray paint graffiti on rock
More graffiti by the side of the DART
Walking up Seafort Parade
This bike is missing an important component
Harry's on a rocking horse at Number 19
Philly's old bedroom at Number 19
Isobel and Harry in Café Java in Blackrock
Harry is in tow as Isobel roams around her old school
Parts of the school have not yet been renovated
Harry on a staircase
Harry and Isobel stride around
The austere façade of Sion Hill
Isobel meets up with school friends
More people arrive
Harry plays piano in the music room
Candles by a stained glass window
The tour of the school starts
The library used to be forbidden to students
The former convent chapel
Old copies of Veritas - the school magazine
Old yearbooks are searched for familiar faces
Isobel's class photo
Modern stained glass
The tour reaches a staircase
The tour ends up in the refectory
Isobel chats to Jen
Back in the atrium
In the dance studio
This staircase is one of the few unchanged places
A big recital/performance room
The schooll hall
Visitors file in to the hall
A group photo
Part of a giant dartboard
Isobel roams around on stage
Outside in a car park
Over in St. Dominic's
A school room in St. Dominic's
Wandering down corridors
The school refectory
It's time for cake
View from the kitchen
A cooker from out of the 1960s is still going
School locker
A wall of lockers
The refectory empties out
Another corridor, and more lockers
On the streets of Dun Laoghaire
Fred and Evelyn head to the ticket office
Tom Duffy's circus in Dun Laoghaire
Harry waits for stuff to happen
Harry's got some novelty LED spinning thing
The show commences
The circus kicks off with a human cannon
Jugglers do their thing
Spotty horses
High-level acrobatics
A parrot pushes a miniature trolley
Big blue macaws
Someone is hurled through the air
A Palomino does a curtsey
A brightly-lit transformer trundles about
Some high-energy roller-skating
Dancing on the wheel of death
After the circus
Jamie pushes Nicholas around
We head into Dun Laoghaire for dinner
It's all go in Mao's Asian restaurant
Outside in Dun Laoghaire
Fred at Gate 55, Dublin Airport
Isobel wanders back
Our flight loads up
Down on the apron as the plane loads up
Isobel and Harry on the apron
Fred gives thumbs-up for being in pyjamas all day
An airport industrial estates from the air
The fields of Ireland
A scattering of islands
A load of wind turbines out at sea
The Wirral and the coastline of England
Autumn leaves back home at Brome
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Harry messes around at Stansted Airport
Harry messes around at Stansted Airport
One of the departure waiting areas at Stansted
We're off to the departure gate at around 10pm
Hanging out in Da Gorls' lounge
Lua and Harry
Isobel and Evelyn pose with Harry and Fred
The boys with Evelyn
A famberly photo
Fred and Evelyn on the bridge over the DART
Fred on the rope pyramid
Isobel roams around
Heading over the DART railway to the sea
Evelyn is looking forward to a swim in Dublin Bay
Fred and Harry look on
Evelyn and Isobel head into the sea
Isobel towels off
Fred waves to a passing DART train
Hanging around by the sea wall
Spray paint graffiti on rock
More graffiti by the side of the DART
Walking up Seafort Parade
This bike is missing an important component
Harry's on a rocking horse at Number 19
Philly's old bedroom at Number 19
Isobel and Harry in Café Java in Blackrock
Harry is in tow as Isobel roams around her old school
Parts of the school have not yet been renovated
Harry on a staircase
Harry and Isobel stride around
The austere façade of Sion Hill
Isobel meets up with school friends
More people arrive
Harry plays piano in the music room
Candles by a stained glass window
The tour of the school starts
The library used to be forbidden to students
The former convent chapel
Old copies of Veritas - the school magazine
Old yearbooks are searched for familiar faces
Isobel's class photo
Modern stained glass
The tour reaches a staircase
The tour ends up in the refectory
Isobel chats to Jen
Back in the atrium
In the dance studio
This staircase is one of the few unchanged places
A big recital/performance room
The schooll hall
Visitors file in to the hall
A group photo
Part of a giant dartboard
Isobel roams around on stage
Outside in a car park
Over in St. Dominic's
A school room in St. Dominic's
Wandering down corridors
The school refectory
It's time for cake
View from the kitchen
A cooker from out of the 1960s is still going
School locker
A wall of lockers
The refectory empties out
Another corridor, and more lockers
On the streets of Dun Laoghaire
Fred and Evelyn head to the ticket office
Tom Duffy's circus in Dun Laoghaire
Harry waits for stuff to happen
Harry's got some novelty LED spinning thing
The show commences
The circus kicks off with a human cannon
Jugglers do their thing
Spotty horses
High-level acrobatics
A parrot pushes a miniature trolley
Big blue macaws
Someone is hurled through the air
A Palomino does a curtsey
A brightly-lit transformer trundles about
Some high-energy roller-skating
Dancing on the wheel of death
After the circus
Jamie pushes Nicholas around
We head into Dun Laoghaire for dinner
It's all go in Mao's Asian restaurant
Outside in Dun Laoghaire
Fred at Gate 55, Dublin Airport
Isobel wanders back
Our flight loads up
Down on the apron as the plane loads up
Isobel and Harry on the apron
Fred gives thumbs-up for being in pyjamas all day
An airport industrial estates from the air
The fields of Ireland
A scattering of islands
A load of wind turbines out at sea
The Wirral and the coastline of England
Autumn leaves back home at Brome