The Reading Room

26Aug13

With the combination of a big Spring tide and fickle and variable winds to contend with we have been relaxing in a few days of Summer – 20+ deg C on the odd occasion, wow!

The weekend brought lots of local short-hop visitors to the marina before they disappeared as quickly as they had come with the threat of another working Monday approaching. So, avoiding the hustle and bustle we ventured off along the 5m coastal walk north to Brae casting off our rain gear as the sun finally shone for us. A very enjoyable walk but the destination of Brae had a mixed reaction from us. Everything seemed out of scale: the massive promenade in the bay; the lack of 'normal' seaside paraphernalia; the masses of people; the lack of investment; a large population but a disconnected town; strange. We returned to Greystones where our surroundings and the community were less contrary.

Today we will re-visit the best library reading room we have ever seen with a first-floor, panoramic view over the expanse of the Irish Sea looking back towards good old Blighty, there we will contemplate the weather forecast.