Update from Ireland #1

Regular readers will know that I’m currently walking across Ireland with my partner Liz, in memory of her big sister Jessie, to raise money for St Basils, which works to prevent youth homelessness. More information about why we’re doing it, here.

So I haven’t watched much TV, unless you count 10 minutes of The Great House Revival on RTE (you can get a government grant for restoring an old house!).

A couple of notes from the road: it starts to get hard at 20km. 25km feels impossible. 30km will have you limping to the first pub in the first town you see where a kind barmaid will give you cheese and onion crisps for free and tell you to get the train.

Three separate people have suggested we get the train. There was a hail storm today which made it tempting.

On the second day I said “morning” to a stranger, accidentally did an Irish accent while strongly resisting the urge to do an Irish accent, and it came out like a Bristolian cat doing an impression of a door.

I want to write so much m…