20 Something Snaps - The Welcome Mat

Some of the sites that rolled out the welcome mat on our recent trip to the UK and Ireland. 

London

St Luke's, Old Street

London

London - See https://ballau.blogspot.com/2022/06/riding-on-mail-train.html

London - See: https://ballau.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-duke.html

Via a ferry from Cobh, Ireland

Port Sunshine near Liverpool

Orkney Islands

Lerwick, Shetland Islands

Fort Charlotte, Shetland Islands

Lerwick, Shetland Islands

Culloden, Scotland

Also known as Downton Abbey

England

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Belfast

England

Orkney Islands

England

Derry, Northern Ireland

London

Pub in Chalfont St Peter, England

Off to the Pub

Good morning from Killybegs, Ireland where the coaches are lining up to take us exploring. A traditional Irish pub visit is on our agenda.

Doordling in Cobh

 A change of itinerary gave us an extra day in Cobh so went went Doordling and snapped a few local images.

Looks like a blue/green palette is popular in Cobh or is it that I prefer that to a brown/red palette and snap accordingly?

Spike Island

 We knocked another item off our bucket list with a visit to Spike Island In Cork Harbour today. As I am interested in sites related to convict transportation. This was of special interest to me as two of my direct ancestors Patrick Curry and Ellen Moore were transported from Cork to Australia in the 1820s. At that time the former monastery on Spike Island was used as a fort but then later that century as a prison where some transportees may have been housed.

The site is huge and I returned to the ship footsore but so satisfied. Of course I took my camera with me and took several snaps.

A short ferry ride took us from the port of Cobh to Spike Island.
I spy our ship in the background.

There was an app available for tech savvy visitors

We followed the map but didn't manage to walk the whole site

There were several interactive activities to amuse the visitors

The prison entrance was up a steep incline but old people like me got could get a ride up

A typical prison cell

This impressive building hosted a museum with displays

There was plenty of signage and information boards 

Not the Patrick Tierney in my family tree

A Prisoner's Plea

Small Chapel

Looking back to Cobh from Spike Island

Looking up from the ferry wharf