Continuing our Summer holiday escapades, and having exhausted all the Adrigole GAA festivities had to offer, we headed to Castletownbere to check in to our B&B - the Old Medical Hall which was conveniently situated on the road out of CTB heading up to Uncle K’s place.
The lady running it was also a cake-maker and so our stay was punctuated by the smells of freshly baked cakes - not great for the diet (particularly when she provided us with some free samples) but really added to the ambience!
After arriving at CTB, we headed up to K & T’s place for the traditional pre-regatta BBQ. They had a full house of the London cousins and families including R and D with their (now adult) children (A, E and L and various girlfriends and boyfriends), L and D with kids, K, A, D and C with kids, and the unexpected presence of S and H. Together with various friends from CTB and our family there was just about enough room around the huge table laid out in front of the house.
As ever it was a lovely afternoon and although the afternoon sun disappeared as the day wore on we were able to stay outside until the drizzle started in the early evening by which stay everyone was nicely warmed up for a visit to MacCarthy’s bar in Town.
A and I left E and V in the B&B to recover from the trip (Ona. Promise that we would bring them back some crepes - a speciality of CTB in the Summer) and by the time we arrived at MacCarthy’s it was jam-packed (unsurprising for a Regatta evening).
We had a whale of a time including much singing and dancing with R& K and their family along with the rest of the gang and copious amounts of Murphy’s! We rolled back in to the B&B (with the crepes) shortly after 12pm.
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