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What a change in weather from yesterday. Overcast with the cloud down to sea level so it wasn’t a day for being out on the water. We decided to do the long walk around the headland on the Howth cliff path so we donned hiking boots and anoraks and set off in light drizzle. It […]

It seemed a shame not to visit Dublin so we caught the train (DART) into the city. Wandered around a bit aimlessly to start with and after stopping for refreshments we headed for the Little Museum of Dublin https://www.littlemuseum.ie It was a little bit cheesy but at least it provided a flavour of the history

The wind forecast on Windy was for a westerly wind, followed by no wind, followed by a south easterly wind in the afternoon and so it turned out. We left at around 06:00 BST and although there was still a little sea running after the strong winds, once out of the harbour, we soon had

The forecast was not great with a strong southerly wind so we decided to stay put and go for a walk. There is a national route going south (Lecale Way) which we started to follow but it seemed to be all on the road around Ardglass, so not much fun. Looking on the Ordnance Survey

The forecast is really against us with an inshore strong wind warning for our area and force 6 to 7 predicted in the weather forecasting models. Indeed it was really blowing hard when we woke up so we caught the bus to Downpatrick, had a coffee and then caught the bus to Stangford and immediately