And by order of the management my heroines are – The Scary One, Daddy’s Little Girl and my Dear Old Mum.
All of whom have been wonderful (and challenging) fellow travellers on life’s unpredictable journey. Never my fault, of course.
Where do I start? I give her one thing to do, remember my dates for our weekend away in Monaghan Monaghan’s country roads.
While we almost ended up by taking the wrong bus from Hamburg, to east Germany rather than Kiel.
En route to our MSC cruise www.msccruises.co.uk up the Norwegian cruises where we almost missed our ship in Bergen. Moi???
It was always going to be a challenge on the slopes with Topflight www.topflight.ie to Soll Soll Mates.
But we stayed out of trouble in Central Portugal, Secret Portugal all down to our perfect host Jose https://www.madomistours.pt.
While we were on the same wavelength this time in Amsterdam Pictures of Amsterdam and George Clooney and Amal’s Amsterdam hotel.
Because the previous time, 23 years earlier, when there was a fork in the cycling route and we ended up going 10kms out of the way.
Then there was the adventure of 13 and a half years in Ireland with The InterCon… what a Ledge! a particular highlight.
Mum Champagne
My first holiday companion… I was in her belly en route to her homestead, Co. Donegal https://visitdonegal.net and we’ve been back countless times.
Latterly when I would take her up from my home in Co. Wicklow.
On one occasion I was tasked to drive her and my Auntie Ronnie who was grieving her husband, my Uncle Tom, up from Dublin… in Ronnie’s automatic sports car!!!
Then when I accompanied her to New York https://www.nycvb.com/about/ for my cousin’s wedding… and suddenly I was back to 12 years old again.
While she wimped out of the Red Hot Chill Pipers concert when we were VIPs in my home town of Glasgow https://peoplemakeglasgow.com at the World Pipe Band Championships https://www.theworlds.co.uk.
Daddy’s Little Drinking Girl
Now there are only good memories… from the time in England’s Lake District https://www.golakes.co.uk when she asked me to find a friend for her.
To a family camping trip in Co. Wicklow https://visitwicklow.ie… when she was nine and she swigged from my whisky flask and claimed that she thought it was tea!
There was no pretence when we attended a cocktail night at the Dylan https://www.dylan.ie…
Well, she is her Grannie’s grand-daughter… and don’t even get me started on the other Grandma, the storied Bamba.
*And now I’ve got started I’ll move onto my heroines from my own personal Travels.
