Steve The Wandering Aussie

2023/07/11 Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth.The reeking smell of spread manure used as fertilizer pervades so much of the Irish countryside it’s become normal. Huge blue and green farm tractors hauling massive trailers filled with the the stuff rumble along all roads except the motorways. And of course when trapped behind said behemoth, one can do nothing but back off. A lot. Gotta laugh.The three large passage tombs of County Meath are a fairly large tourist hype so we chugged eastward from Newport across the country to see them. Nearly four hours for yet another spectacular fail. Seems one has to book online at least a month prior to arriving. We did manage to walk Dowth Tulla (round hill) but the other two were off limits. Lyn found a memorial to yet another one of her aristocratic dead relatives. Bastards are everywhere.Ya just gotta laugh.So we toured the visitor centre, saw Newgrange through the telescope and headed into town to our BNB. Our host, Paddy, was deaf as the proverbial post so we yelled at each other for a while, moved our gear into our room, then went out for beer and a Chinese meal in the city of Neven. I think they spelt Nambour wrong.Back at Paddy’s house we found the bed had a plastic under sheet. The lamp was wrapped in plastic and the chair had a plastic liner on it. Not sure what Paddy’s experience has been but I’m glad to be leaving early tomorrow.Without whining too much, I’m getting more than a little sick of the endless driving we’ve done here. Possibly bad planning on our part but I’m gunna put some blame on the GPS which LOVES to take us down narrow and winding ‘L’ and ‘R’ roads instead of the major arterials. And I wouldn’t mind so much if I could see the country side but the hedges each side are over six feet high so the road is a claustrophobic green funnel. Cute for the first 200 miles but a little thin after that.Two more nights here and I don’t know if I’ll be back here. We’ve not done and seen everything we wanted but it has been enough. For now.And I’m looking forward to the Guinness factory on Thursday. Your good and faithful wandering Aussie will report his finding on completion of that tour. If it’s not another catastrophic fail 🤣🤣🇮🇪🇮🇪