We started our journey back home slowly. We slept in and had a chilled morning with breakfast, coffee and tea. I did some chemistry and we all sorted our laguage for the last time. Then we started driving into the direction of Rosslare. It began very adventurous with a closed/blocked highway so we had to take a detour but beside of some signs on the way we whether knew how long it took nor what real detour we had to take – we followed a trucker and a car and after 30 min of detour we were on the rigth way again🛣️
The weather was rainy and stormy, we thought that Ireland cried about our departure that day. 🌧
We stopped at our last Irish local restaurant – it was delicious and we had a lovely waitress🍴
At Rosslare we stopped at the beach but Ireland was still mourning because of us so we decided to go into a „gelataria“, enjoyed some coffee, tea and ice cream 🍦🍵☕
We went on our last walk on the shore and said goodbye to the sea 🌊. Suddenly the sun came out and Ireland said the last goodbye with lovely weather. We stopped at a church, another coffee shop, a small park and near the habour and observed the ships. At 7 p.m. we wanted to check in but everything was a little bit later so we waited. At 10 p.m. we were inside the ship, placed our car and got on the ship gate and saw Ireland and stars ⭐🚢.
We departed and ate our dinner in iur cabin we booked for this crossing. After that Laura and I went to bed and mom & dad drank 1/2 pint of Rockshore & Guinness. The night was in the beginning very moved because there was a storm outside and the waves were pretty big but as we laid in our beds the water was rocking us to sleep. 🛌💤🌊
Laura and I ate breakfast on the sundeck in the early morning so nobody was there. I drew something with aquarelle and Laura read her book. 🎨 📖
Mom and dad came with their coffees and we explored most of all the pedestrian reachable parts of the ship and then had lunch – our last Irish fish and chips. 🐟🍟
We spent our afternoon most of the time on deck because the weather was wonderful, we had a lot of sun and ciuld read, do something for school, paint, walk around or observe ships/Great Britain in the distance with our binoculars ✨
We were a little bit late so all got tea & coffee for free and at 5 p.m. we arrived in the harbour of Rosslare and saw how our big ship docked. 🚢
Afterwards mom & dad drove us another 2 1/2 hours to Roune and arrived there at almost 10 p.m. and checked in with half French and English on the phone with the owner. 🚘
On our short way to the apartment we also experienced the evening atmosphere in Roune. We ate dinner and after some preparations for the next day we all fell into bed 🛌
Today we woke up early at 4:30 a.m. because we had to drive about 1000 km back to Munich. So we had first to try to pay our parking ticket which was not as easy as migth someone think but we made it 🎟
Mom and dad drove perfect and we were pretty good in time and there was no traffic jam. For lunch we stopped at a village nearby the highway but the restaurant Laura had chosen first was closed despite of the online opening times. But then we drove to another pretty fancy restaurant – and ate a delicious well prepared lunch 🍴
At 7 p.m. we arrived in Munich and were lovley welcomed by our cat Sisi 🐱.
Now as we arrived all the memories we made proceed slowly. The landscapes, nature reservation parks, the wide of the Irish land, the cold freezing Atlantic, the left-hand traffic, amazing and delicious Irish traditional food, lovely, funny and nice people we met, all the animals we saw, the sheep on the streets that were more afraid of tourists with carrots than of cars, wide and big hills and mountains, lakes, beaches, cities like Dublin and Galway, the hospitality, Fish and Chips, delicious seafood, the atmosphere in PUBs, giant Cliffs, hikes and walks, interesting museums and gardens, driving on small highways and streets, forests, a lot of sun and just a little Irish rain and all the placed we explored like the Wicklow Mountains, Connemara Nationalpark, Nephin Mountain National Park, Achill Island and all the places we stayed at: the Glissman Glamping with the small caravans, Belmullet with the tidal pool, the Dolphin Hostel in Crossmolina and the Nephin Mountain, Hollybanks with Jane, Molly and J. near Galway, Clares House at Tuamgraney and Crews Apartment in Dungarvan! In conclusion it was an amazing, interesting, wonderful and as the Irish would say (super) lovely stay and we all want to come back and want to explore new places of this wonderful country. And for now we are grateful for all the memories we made, the stories we can now and the whole adventure✨✨
