Personal Blog
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Today we learnt that a huge number of the roads around and heading away from Dublin were built in the last 10 years, so according to the satnav in my car we spent most of the day driving through fields! Since it’s Helen’s birthday today, we started by visiting an Inglot shop (a high-end makeup brand) in Ireland’s largest shopping centre (that’s about a quarter of the size of the Trafford Centre for comparison).
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Tuesday was our last full day away, so we decided to do some more travelling to see the sights. We first drove out to Marazion and St Michael’s Mount, which was beautiful; the village of Marazion was very quaint (although everyone around referred to it as a town despite it having no more than 1500 residents).
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Saturday morning and happily engaged, we woke up, grabbed breakfast, and set off on our daily adventures. We had an odd experience leaving Exeter trying to find a petrol station, we followed the closest icons on the satnav only to find five different petrol stations that had been closed in the past 8 years (the age of the car satnav), all in Exeter city centre! Eventually we found one, then set off to the end of the world.
Arrival Date: 2015-11-19
Departure Date: 2015-11-25
Accommodation: Mercure Southgate, Exeter
Following a three-hour drive down to Devon on the Thursday evening, we finally arrived at the hotel around 10pm. We grabbed a quick drink in the bar, but got to bed fairly quickly as we were both tired from the journey. The room was amazing, they gave us the bridal suite (I told Helen they must’ve given us an upgrade as I only booked a standard suite online).
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After Dunure castle, we continued South down the coast. The view all round were beautiful, and there was an old disused railway line on our route that hadn’t been used in 80+ years. We kept passing dismantled bridges, and over tiny bridges. Later on I read up on it, it was known as the Maidens and Dunure Light Railway, and you can trace the route it took on a map. It’s very neatly carved out of the countryside.