Journey home

According to the AA Routeplanner it is 162 miles from Dublin to Moyhill and should take 3 hours. The first part of the journey was very easy – away from the hotel by 10.00, found the motorway with no problem and by 11.45 we had covered 92 miles and reached the exit for Ballinasloe where the main road was closed due to flooding. Unfortunately it took 5 hours to cover the remaining 107 miles due to flooded roads and an extremely roundabout route – spoke to more Gardai today than in the last 8 months trying to find out about passable local roads. It’s all very well for the HGV’s and the landcruisers to plough through the water covering the road – a bit different with a ground clearance of 4 inches!
To cap it all, within 20 mins of getting home we had a powercut – due to heavy rains – which fortunately only lasted an hour. Must remember to replenish the stock of candles and pick up a primus stove!