Right then! Only a few hours to go before I head back to the airwaves on Monday morning. It’s amazing how quick 2 weeks can go. We spent a week in the Wicklow mountains in one of these…

which was great except it had a shitty TV…

But with views like this, who cares…

And when it didn’t rain there was an epic double deck…
We trundled around Bray and went to an aquarium, which to be honest, was a bit shite. Not a patch on the stuff they have in Dingle..

There was also some kind of Disneyland rip off on the Bray seafront , which was rather exciting as you can see…

After paying some carnie types to hook ducks and squirt water, the Smallie done rather well…

From there we made for Howth to hang out with some of my “celeb” pals…Alas none were home, so we got fish and chips x 2 that cost 21 Quid. That was after we took a hurricane swept walk on some well known pier

We then paid another 20 odd quid (on another day) to get into some place that had a few fields with some animals

It also had a maze, but it started raining and we couldn’t get lost..

On another day we decided to go to the Zoo and compliments of Google Maps we Ended up here

Which was great except all I wanted to see was monkeys and shit on the particular day. Instead we continued taking directions from Google and ended up on the set of Braveheart (recognise the bushes?)

After much driving around Sally’s gap (or something) we eventually got some monkey action.. Who thankfully weren’t throwing shit, but rolling around in it instead. Evolution eh?

We also got to see the ape from those Clint Eastwood flicks…

From there we ended up on the set of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, where the Gorilla’s were more interested in breaking the fuck out of the glass..

We saw other shit too, like this orange pussy cat…

and a drunk Giraffe and passed out Rhino

The smallie started some exploring

And we ended up in some field near with a picnic, a waterfall and more skin eating flies than you’d see in a Concern advert on the TV. And we had to pay for the hassle as well

And then, on another day, we found that tower that’s on a billion copybooks…

There was plenty of other “antics” but for legal reasons, I can’t put them up here (or in other words, I can’t be arsed), but here’s a taster
I’d certainly staycation it again, but I could have probably got a month in Dubai for what we spent…