Evelyn, Isobel and Fred before their run
The End of the Breffni, Blackrock, Dublin - 18th February 2023
Isobel, Evelyn and even Fred are off for a quick run around the parks of Blackrock and Booterstown, which leaves a bit of time to wander up the Rock Road. Then, in part two of some sort of triathlon or Iron Man thing, Isobel and Evelyn go for a swim at Williamstown. After that, we head into Blackrock for the traditional post-activity pastry and a peer in the window of the Breffni bar - once one of Isobel's regular haunts but now sadly closed after 46 years under the same ownership. Then, after a poke around Dun Laoghaire, it's back on the Ryanair bus to home.
next album: We Are Detectorists, and a Trip to the Market, Norwich - 25th February 2023
previous album: The Dead Zoo, Dublin, Ireland - 17th February 2023
The runners head off through Blackrock Park
The derelict O'Neill and Son on Rock Road
The old carpenter's shop on the Rock Road
Booterstown's getting some sort of skate park
Another fancy building on Rock Road
An Edwardian building from 1907, now a takeaway
The Blackrock Martello tower
Fred ducks out of the second half of the run
Evelyn and Isobel get back from their run
Evelyn chats to a former Seafort Parade neighbour
Fred watches the sea
A DART train rumbles past
Evelyn and Isobel are in the sea again
A load of geese float around in Dublin Bay
Evelyn and Isobel get changed after their swim
Graffiti on the sea wall
Somebody's working inside the Martello tower
A cool 1987 Renault 4 post van on Idrone Terrace
Idrone Lane - the back alley behind the Breffni
Wandering up Bath Place to Main Street
The Breffni Bar
Inside the closed-up Breffni
A letter to customers is stuck up in the window
Another look at the Breffni
Fred has a slice of cake at Parlour Café
Late-Victorian buildings on Main Street
We rummage around in Raven Books
Evelyn reads a book jacket
Outside Raven Books
The Bennett building has been nicely done up
Fred leans on the wall on Idrone Terrace
Harry makes some Lego thing
Fred does some Lego as well
Fred and Evelyn in the lounge
Some of Fred's pick'n'mix Lego
We're hanging around the bus shelter again
On York Road in Dun Laoghaire
Evelyn finds something amusing
There's a heron in the rocks
The heron takes flight over the sea
The new brutalist concrete 'baths'
A message for Monkey
Isobel and Evelyn roam around
The new Dun Laoghaire swimming area
Fred's training starlings
Starlings jump up for a bit of biscuit
Harry tries his Ninja moves on the starlings
We're in Rocket's for a bit of quick lunch
Harry's still messing around with his Lego
Harry blows straw-wrappers around
A boat sculpture at Dún Laoghaire
Republican graffiti on a wall
A funky graffiti tag on the DART wall
The other harbour at Dún Laoghaire
Louise and Fred hang around outside Nunki
Da Wheeze has a smoke by a heron mural
Classic Edwardian terraces off York Place
A big mural on a wall on York Road
Isobel roams around with a bubble tea in hand
Fred inspects his bubble tea
Back in Da Gorls' lounge
Harry and Isobel in Dublin Airport's Terminal 1
Fred by the Ryanair bag drop
Dublin's old terminal and control tower
Fred's scored another slice of pizza
Isobel checks something on her phone
It's relatively quiet in the terminal
Harry and Fred go backwards on the travelator
There's a big British Airways 777 on the stand
Funky disco runway lights
Clouds are eerily under-lit by Dublin's lights
We fly over a city somewhere in England
The plane parks up in the middle of nowehere
A stream of passengers disembarks the plane
Harry hauls away one of our cases
The hilarious 1p saving on a Duty Free offer
The newish multi-storey car park near the blue zone
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Evelyn, Isobel and Fred before their run
Evelyn, Isobel and Fred before their run
The runners head off through Blackrock Park
The derelict O'Neill and Son on Rock Road
The old carpenter's shop on the Rock Road
Booterstown's getting some sort of skate park
Another fancy building on Rock Road
An Edwardian building from 1907, now a takeaway
The Blackrock Martello tower
Fred ducks out of the second half of the run
Evelyn and Isobel get back from their run
Evelyn chats to a former Seafort Parade neighbour
Fred watches the sea
A DART train rumbles past
Evelyn and Isobel are in the sea again
A load of geese float around in Dublin Bay
Evelyn and Isobel get changed after their swim
Graffiti on the sea wall
Somebody's working inside the Martello tower
A cool 1987 Renault 4 post van on Idrone Terrace
Idrone Lane - the back alley behind the Breffni
Wandering up Bath Place to Main Street
The Breffni Bar
Inside the closed-up Breffni
A letter to customers is stuck up in the window
Another look at the Breffni
Fred has a slice of cake at Parlour Café
Late-Victorian buildings on Main Street
We rummage around in Raven Books
Evelyn reads a book jacket
Outside Raven Books
The Bennett building has been nicely done up
Fred leans on the wall on Idrone Terrace
Harry makes some Lego thing
Fred does some Lego as well
Fred and Evelyn in the lounge
Some of Fred's pick'n'mix Lego
We're hanging around the bus shelter again
On York Road in Dun Laoghaire
Evelyn finds something amusing
There's a heron in the rocks
The heron takes flight over the sea
The new brutalist concrete 'baths'
A message for Monkey
Isobel and Evelyn roam around
The new Dun Laoghaire swimming area
Fred's training starlings
Starlings jump up for a bit of biscuit
Harry tries his Ninja moves on the starlings
We're in Rocket's for a bit of quick lunch
Harry's still messing around with his Lego
Harry blows straw-wrappers around
A boat sculpture at Dún Laoghaire
Republican graffiti on a wall
A funky graffiti tag on the DART wall
The other harbour at Dún Laoghaire
Louise and Fred hang around outside Nunki
Da Wheeze has a smoke by a heron mural
Classic Edwardian terraces off York Place
A big mural on a wall on York Road
Isobel roams around with a bubble tea in hand
Fred inspects his bubble tea
Back in Da Gorls' lounge
Harry and Isobel in Dublin Airport's Terminal 1
Fred by the Ryanair bag drop
Dublin's old terminal and control tower
Fred's scored another slice of pizza
Isobel checks something on her phone
It's relatively quiet in the terminal
Harry and Fred go backwards on the travelator
There's a big British Airways 777 on the stand
Funky disco runway lights
Clouds are eerily under-lit by Dublin's lights
We fly over a city somewhere in England
The plane parks up in the middle of nowehere
A stream of passengers disembarks the plane
Harry hauls away one of our cases
The hilarious 1p saving on a Duty Free offer
The newish multi-storey car park near the blue zone