I'm blogging this from Galway, my former stomping grounds and the city I consider my spiritual home. Now some of you reading this may be wondering why I didn't call to say I was coming or even to say "I'm here. Fancy going for a drink?" Well my original plans involved getting in to Galway fairly early turning up at people's places of employment and surprising them. Unfortunately, best laid plans and all that...
I had wanted to leave at about 11am and get into Galway at about 2pm. Unfortunately, I got held up in the office so I didn't get out until Noon. Then I realised I didn't have enough petrol so I had to detour to fill the tank.( 80.9 in Mount Brown, if you're interested. this meant I didn't get out of Dublin until about 12:45. Then I needed to stop in Athlone. I pulled out of the McDonald's just before the Athlone bypass at about 3pm. And then of course I hit Loughrea. Traffic came to a standstill several miles outside Loughrea and I didn't clear the town until 4.10. After that I sped through Craughwell (in a figurative sense rather than a legal one) until a few miles from Oranmore when the traffic came to a complete and utter halt due to race week. It took half an hour to make ajourney of five miles to the Oranmore bypass.
In the end, I didn't pull into the driveway of the house in Moyola Park until after 5pm. I fully intended at that time to ring a few people but I sat down for a few moments and promptly fell asleep. So my sincere apologies to everyone in Galway. I'm off again first thing in the morning. I have a meeting in Loughrea (check out e-Thursday in the Indo in a few weeks) in the morning and then it's straight back to Dublin.
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