Isobel and the Boys in Bundoran, Ireland - 24th August 2025

It's supposed to be the big family holiday in Bundoran, on the north-west coast of Ireland. However, a kidney infection puts Nosher in hospital for five days, only getting out about a week before the trip which means it's too risky to travel, and so Isobel - who was already in Ireland for a Robbie Williams gig - flies back early to pick the boys up and continue with the holiday whilst Nosher stays at home. And it's just as well really, as the kidney infection comes back after a few days, which would have been interesting. So this is a completely vicarious set, made up of photos from both Isobel's and Fred's phones - but it suitably includes some dereliction, in particular when Fred decides to explore a Bundoran "crack house". It's almost like being there...

next album: Fred and the SYWO at Snape Maltings, Snape, Suffolk - 7th September 2025
previous album: A Visit to the Thornhams, Suffolk - 3rd August 2025

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A dry stone wall

A dry stone wall

Fred, Harry and Do Gorls at the Monkstown bus stop

Isobel with Evelyn and the boys

The view from outside the rented house

The giant rental house

Isobel bagsies the en-suite bedroom

Another view of the sea

Possibly Mullaghmore

Fred is head chef for the week

The gang on the beach

Evelyn, Noddy, Isobel and Fred

Isobel gets a family selfie in the rain

Isobel with Fern and Ra-ra

Fred and Harry with the Leitrim girls

There's some sort of fossil in the rocks

Davida does a photo of Fred on the Fairy Bridge

Fern looks out to sea

A cat walks past

The Screaming Bean café in Monaghan

Faith, Nico and Rachel

It's tea time round Philly and Davida's

James, Evelyn and Philly

Fred faces defeat in Trivial Pursuit

Evelyn in a gloomy seaside shelter

It's lashing rain on the clifftop

Isobel spots a church for sale

Philly fits a flue to his new wood burner

There's a swimming pool cut into the rocks

Fred explores a 'crack house'

The ceiling's gone in the crack house

Another trashed room

No gods, no masters

Harry's found some giant seaweed

Mullaghmore beach

Fred stomps around on the beach

Fred's on the pizza again

Fred, Evelyn, James and Isobel in a restaurant

Harry and Evelyn in a café

Philly and Evelyn in the rented house

Noddy lurks in the kitchen

Fred's got a rock

A wide expanse of beach

Fred and Harry sunbathe in the rain

Fred looks around

Harry looks puzzled

Harry carries a rock around

Fred and Harry outside Cavan House

Harry looks grumpy

James in a restaurant in Sligo

Nicholas and James on the beach

It's feeding time again

Mullaghmore Beach

No camping in a dodgy car park

Fred stomps about

The clifftop at Bundoran

The gang roams around

The Bundoran crack house

Flowers on the cliff top

Fred wanders off

Evelyn on the beach

The boys poke at rocks

Harry points at something in the cliff face

An upturned boat

The derelict Ulster Tourist House

A Hunger Strike commemoration in Bundoran

A Bundoran back alley

A road in Bundoran

A derelict house

Isobel does another selfie

The boys get ice creams

Sunset over the sea

Mullaghmore harbour

Fred sticks his feet in the sea

Evelyn, Noddy and Fred walk up the hill

Lobster pots on the sea front

Evelyn and Fred outside Buoys and Gulls

Please don't feed the elephants

Fred's on the frying pan again