title A Trip to Monkstown Farm and Blackrock, County Dublin, Ireland - 2nd January 2014 intro Following a quiet Christmas at home, it's time to head over the Irish Sea to visit Fred and Harry's various uncles, aunts and cousins in Monkstown and Blackrock, County Dublin. Having a large supply of willing baby-sitters means we even get to go out in the evening a couple of times. imgc1630 Isobel and Harry on the bus to the airport imgc1632 Fred in his Spiderman top at the departure gate imgc1633 Fred trundles his Trunki up to the plane imgc1634 The queue to board at Stansted imgc1636 A Ruinair 737-800 imgc1638 Fred and Harry mill around imgc1640 Fred wearily trudges up the steps imgc1641 A view of a very blue resevoir imgc1642 A field full of H's imgc1643 A midlands town somewhere imgc1649 Lambay Island, and Malahide in Ireland imgc1652 Harry - baby Gabey - flops around imgc1653 The town of Robswalls imgc1654 Massed car parks near Dublin Airport imgc1655 Dublin's new Terminal 2, seen on final approach imgc1658 Isobel and Harry - ready to land imgc1660 The old terminal building and tower imgc1661 The hell that is buggy retrieval on the tarmac imgc1662 Harry is inserted in to his buggy imgc1663 Harry waits in a corridor at Dublin Airport imgc1666 Fred sits on his Trunki imgc1667 Isobel wanders the lonely corridors imgc1668 Harry in the lift imgc1669 More deserted passages imgc1670 Fred roams around the baggage hall imgc1671 Fred and Harry wait for the bags to turn up imgc1672 Harry gets stuck in to a load of new toys imgc1676 Fred's home-made Christmas card imgc1677 Harry opens a present imgc1679 We eat some sort of buffet imgc1681 Fred eats ice cream imgc1683 Harry's got some ice cream on his face imgc1687 Fred is Super Hero imgc1690 The bar at the Dark Horse imgc1691 Noddy gets the beers in imgc1692 €6.60 for a pint of Punk IPA is a shock imgc1694 Walking around Dun Laoghaire imgc1697 Harry gets the wrong end of the brush imgc1699 Harry gives a look imgc1700 Isobel and Harry at Number 19 imgc1701 Harry plays a mini keyboard imgc1702 Fred and Isobel share a cuddle on the sofa imgc1703 Haryanna and Analua imgc1704 Lua and Fred do playdoh imgc1708 Harry eats something imgc1716 Harry and Lua look up to big brother/cousin Fred imgc1723 Nosher makes a hotdog out of Play-Doh imgc1724 Fred and Noddy in the Blackrock Centre car park imgc1726 Isobel and Noddy inspect the menu in Eddy Rocket's imgc1727 Haryana looks up imgc1731 Neon lights imgc1735 Fred roams around imgc1738 We de-camp from Eddy Rocket's in Blackrock imgc1740 The bandstand in Blackrock park is under water imgc1745 A dog has a swim imgc1746 Another view of the flooded band stand imgc1747 Graffiti on a wall imgc1750 A DART train at Blackrock station imgc1751 Sea-wall graffiti imgc1754 Blackrock Lido is overwhelmed by sea imgc1759 "Dulux: let's colour" seems to be everywhere imgc1770 Occasional waves explode over the sea wall imgc1773 More remains of the lido imgc1776 Dulux Let's Colour Project graffiti imgc1777 A million crushed sea shells imgc1779 A detail in rust imgc1786 Harry looks nonplussed imgc1787 Harry looks at Lua's "Hollywood" shades imgc1788 The cousins - Annalua, Harry, Fern and Fred imgc1793 Poolbeg generating station, aka The Winkies imgc1797 Graffiti on the DART bridge in Blackrock Park imgc1799 Gulls feast on dead worms killed by the floods imgc1805 It's like a scene from Hitchcock's The Birds imgc1809 Floods both sides of the wall imgc1813 A floating road cone