Maria's Trip To Tipp (Tipperary)

Well, as they say, all good things must come to an end and so it was with my niece Maria’s visit to Ireland. I drove her to Dublin Airport yesterday to catch her flight to return home to London. It was a sad parting and I certainly hope she will return to see us all soon again.

In the short time she was here, we managed to get a lot of things done including visiting a couple of historical places but of course the best of all was visiting family and her meeting her uncles and cousins again after such a long time.

She has promised to do a post for my blog that I will publish as soon as it arrives. In the meantime, I am including some pictures from her visit that I hope you will enjoy and give you an opportunity to meet some of my family.

My sister Freddy loves to entertain and anytime a special visitor arrives amongst us, she will always use as an opportunity to bring the family together for a celebration. Here as some family members around her ample table partaking of her hospitality on the occassion of Maria's visit.

My sisters, Freddy, Kathleen, Biddy, and brother Jim

My niece Ann and my grandniece Kate on a visit to Ann and her husband, Dave's, house at Galway. Kate proudly displays the cake she made especially for our visit

There is a beautiful wood near where my sisters live. There is a little lake in the centre that you can walk round along a path for a distance of 1 1/2 miles approx. Here is Maria feeding the swans on our way round the lake.

My sister and I on our walk round the lake

Maria and Freddy on our walk

Son Tim, Daughter-in-law Mary, Grandson Anthony, Granddaughter Elizabeth and Maria on our visit to their house.

I am blessed with a lot of nieces and nephews. Here is a small selection of my beautiful nieces - Fiona, Maria, Siobhan, Alanna, Jackie and Lily, Aurlie.