Tuesday 22 September 2020

Tuesday 22 September – Carrickfergus

A little breezy during the night and the branches of the tree we were under kept scraping across the roof. Also we were parked quite close to the road and, being a main road, there was traffic noise pretty well all through the night. However it was easy enough to “tune out” and we got a good nights sleep once the “local yoof” had finished showing off their driving “skills” round the car park.

Awoke to a greyish day but with nothing to rush for we took our time over breakfast and sorting out. We had nothing planned but if the weather had been nicer we would perhaps have had a look around the town – unfortunately the castle was closed too. Bren popped across to Sainsburys to make sure we had enough groceries when we got home but apart from exercising Jamie we then stayed indoors for the afternoon, especially when it started to drizzle and later turn to rain.

Being our last evening we thought we'd go out for a meal and walked across to the Brewers Fayre. Due to the coronavirus situation they were operating at a reduced capacity and couldn't accommodate us, but booked us in for a little later and then phoned us when a table was free. It was therefore a little strange to see the place was all but empty, but the hostess explained that they'd had a raft of bookings from the hotel – they were all “table for one” and had mostly finished when we arrived.

So after an enjoyable meal we returned to Bertie for an earlyish night, of course taking Jamie out for his final evening constitutional.

 

No comments:

Post a Comment

New Blog started

 It's a couple of years later now. In between we've had Brexit, the Covid pandemic and Terry suffered some serious medical problems....