Howth

The third leg of our cruise to Ireland.

Howth welcomes Annabella with a bit of an awkward landing but a hilarious welcome from marina control. A lovely town and we are looking forward to sampling the Guiness later, just for comparison of course. This Martello tower overlooks the harbour. 

Greystones - Stage 2 of our cruise to Ireland

Greystones marina. With Tim, Justin, Brian and Brian. 

After Tim helped sort out a problem with their roller reeling they promised to buy us each a Guinness. 

It would have been rude to say no! 

A great evening with some great sailors. Good sailing and we look forward to crossing paths again!

Arklow - landfall in Ireland

Arklow - entrance to the commercial harbour

The first stage of our cruise to Ireland. A very early arrival (0130) on the town pontoon. A great start with a genuinely helpful marina and some great and seriously witty people. Celebrated with Guiness at the bridge inn later.

A small courtesy

Just before we set of for Ireland, I popped in the (other) chandlery and bought ourselves a courtesy flag...

As you can see, its the right flag, has a toggle on the top and a loop on the bottom and is made of nice quality fabric. The more observant of you will have guessed that we do not specialise in over large pencils on Annabella. They say civilised life is made up of small courtesies, but I did feel rather embarassed...