...a spin around Wicklow

This is why I have no cards for you this week! Last weekend DH spirited us away to Dublin for the weekend. We stayed in a lovely hotel just outside the city, but we chose to explore Wicklow while we were there instead of the city and this is some of what we found. It's been over 20 years since I was last in Wicklow and I really should make more of an effort to get down there a bit more frequently - since the new road links have opened up it's less than two hours away and as my wee mum would have said "It's better than a tonic for you."

Along the roadside there were still some jewels of winter to provide a glimpse of the sparkly beauty that must have encrusted the place the weekend before when the snow was here. There were pockets of frozen stalactites and stalagmites all along the road where the frost had cloaked each blade of grass individually.

A close up of the 'stalagmites' from above, you can just see the individual blades of grass in the centre of each one, the kids were fascinated - I was fascinated! They do say that little amuses the innocent....

Saturday was a beautiful crisp day in the wicklow hills on the way down to Glendalough.

 

Glendalough is one of Ireland's most beautiful places and you can find out more about it on this site, we took a good few snaps - and I really wished I had a better camera operator...

Leaving Glendalough behind we drove on towards sally Gap, and came upon this lovely valley.

Wicklow is gorgeous, totally worth the extra laundry....

Hope you enjoyed the mini tour, meantime I am scratching my head over the cranberry color challenge, me and cranberry can't seem to get along....