title The End of the Breffni, Blackrock, Dublin - 18th February 2023 intro Isobel, Evelyn and even Fred are off for a quick run around the parks of Blackrock and Booterstown, which leaves a bit of time to wander up the Rock Road. Then, in part two of some sort of triathlon or Iron Man thing, Isobel and Evelyn go for a swim at Williamstown. After that, we head into Blackrock for the traditional post-activity pastry and a peer in the window of the Breffni bar - once one of Isobel's regular haunts but now sadly closed after 46 years under the same ownership. Then, after a poke around Dun Laoghaire, it's back on the Ryanair bus to home. imgp1494 Evelyn, Isobel and Fred before their run imgp1497 The runners head off through Blackrock Park imgp1501 The derelict O'Neill and Son on Rock Road imgp1502 The old carpenter's shop on the Rock Road imgp1503 Booterstown's getting some sort of skate park imgp1506 Another fancy building on Rock Road imgp1509 An Edwardian building from 1907, now a takeaway imgp1510 The Blackrock Martello tower imgp1511 Fred ducks out of the second half of the run imgp1514 Evelyn and Isobel get back from their run imgp1516 Evelyn chats to a former Seafort Parade neighbour imgp1520 Fred watches the sea imgp1521 A DART train rumbles past imgp1524 Evelyn and Isobel are in the sea again imgp1527 A load of geese float around in Dublin Bay imgp1531 Evelyn and Isobel get changed after their swim imgp1532 Graffiti on the sea wall imgp1534 Somebody's working inside the Martello tower imgp1535 A cool 1987 Renault 4 post van on Idrone Terrace imgp1539 Idrone Lane - the back alley behind the Breffni imgp1541 Wandering up Bath Place to Main Street imgp1543 The Breffni Bar imgp1546 Inside the closed-up Breffni imgp1547 A letter to customers is stuck up in the window imgp1550 Another look at the Breffni imgp1551 Fred has a slice of cake at Parlour Café imgp1552 Late-Victorian buildings on Main Street imgp1553 We poke around in Raven Books imgp1555 Evelyn reads a book jacket imgp1556 Outside Raven Books imgp1557 The Bennett building has been nicely done up imgp1559 Fred leans on the wall on Idrone Terrace imgp1560 Harry makes some Lego thing imgp1564 Fred does some Lego as well imgp1568 Fred and Evelyn in the lounge imgp1572 Some of Fred's pick'n'mix Lego imgp1574 We're hanging around the bus shelter again imgp1575 On York Road in Dun Laoghaire imgp1579 Evelyn finds something amusing imgp1582 There's a heron in the rocks imgp1588 The heron takes flight over the sea imgp1595 The new brutalist concrete "baths" imgp1600 A message for Monkey imgp1601 Isobel and Evelyn roam around imgp1602 The new Dun Laoghaire swimming area imgp1607 Fred's training starlings imgp1608 Starlings jump up for a bit of biscuit imgp1612 Harry tries his Ninja moves on the starlings imgp1617 We're in Rocket's for a bit of quick lunch imgp1619 Harry's still messing around with his Lego imgp1625 Harry blows straw-wrappers around imgp1631 A boat sculpture at Dún Laoghaire imgp1632 Republican graffiti on a wall imgp1633 A funky graffiti tag on the DART wall imgp1634 The other harbour at Dún Laoghaire imgp1635 Louise and Fred hang around outside Nunki imgp1640 Da Wheeze has a smoke by a heron mural imgp1642 Classic Edwardian terraces off York Place imgp1646 A big mural on a wall on York Road imgp1647 Isobel roams around with a bubble tea in hand imgp1652 Fred inspects his bubble tea imgp1653 Back in Da Gorls' lounge imgp1655 Harry and Isobel in Dublin Airport's Terminal 1 imgp1656 Fred by the Ryanair bag drop imgp1658 Dublin's old terminal and control tower imgp1660 Fred's scored another slice of pizza imgp1662 Isobel checks something on her phone imgp1665 It's relatively quiet in the terminal imgp1671 Harry and Fred go backwards on the travelator imgp1677 There's a big British Airways 777 on the stand imgp1693 Funky disco runway lights imgp1695 Clouds are eerily under-lit by Dublin's lights imgp1699 We fly over a city somewhere in England imgp1703 The plane parks up in the middle of nowehere imgp1705 A stream of passengers disembarks the plane imgp1707 Harry hauls away one of our cases imgp1708 The hilarious 1p saving on a Duty Free offer imgp1709 The newish multi-storey car park near the blue zone