Time to move on. Leaving Kilkenny and heading for the famous Brownhill Dolmen. A huge portal tomb with a topstone reckoned to weigh 150 tons. Like Neolithic structures in Shetland it is totally open to the public, yet, also like Shetland, had not been vandalised, defaced or abused in any

Looks like we've started to hibernate. Another cold night and so another slow morning. Eventually around noon we leave the van, this time taking the scenic river route into Kilkenny. A very pleasant 30 minute walk and I wonder if some of the trees en route were Wych Elm. Certainly

Not sure what to write today. A soft morning. 'Soft' being Irish-speak for raining steadily but not actually pouring down. And cold too, surprisingly cold. So we didn't get out of bed until 10 and then tatted around the van, reading or doing craft until the need for lunch drove

To be fair, even the guys loading the ferry said we wouldn't fit! The dockside dispatcher had pulled a German campervan and then us out of the line of vans and caravans and sent us on our way. We did have a concern when the next dispatcher, at the entrance