After the traumas of the first couple of days, Sunday turned out to be a breeze. Crikey, I even managed 5 hours sleep thanks to me getting to bed at 2300 hours on Saturday night and my room mate not getting to bed until 0400 on Sunday morning! Basically, he was coming to bed as I was about to get up so this room sharing thing actually worked pretty well. To clarify Mick's lateness to bed, he is in a band at home and always takes his guitar with him wherever he travels in the world. Basically he loves to entertain and on this occasion, he found himself performing in The Helm until the early hours. He is so good that the punters wouldn't let him retire to his bed until they were ready to leave and in an Irish bar, that indeed can be an extremely late finish!
Our tour organiser, Gerald, had managed to re-schedule our golf on the Sunday to Carne Golf Club, some ninety minutes North of our base and remarkably, the journey passed off without incident. So did the golf and again under beautiful blue skies and with barely a breath of wind to be felt, everyone experienced the magnificence which is Carne Golf Links. This is a course crafted by mother nature and whoever looked at this piece of land and created the 18 holes, he has to be a genius because it is surely something the likes of which I am never likely to experience again. The bonus as well was that I had started to get into the "links mentality" and actually repeated my score of day one which was hugely satisfying. I wasn't to make the prize list but my satisfaction was in playing ten times better than the previous day.
I there was any downside to the final day of golf, it was the late return to The Helm which meant that I actually ordered my main course of the evening meal at 2230, half an hour after I am normally in bed! Fortunately, I had brought along my jumbo size packet of Rennies indigestion tablets which put the gastric fire out before I climbed into bed and thanks to those and to another of Sir Michael's late finishes, decent and prolonged sleep proved a bonus.
And so the golfing part of the trip came to an end and I packed and prepared for an early start to Dublin in the morning to collect Linda, who was to bring some sanity and dignity back into my life for the next 8 days. The golfing trip had been terrific and I can only commend the cracking bunch of people with whom I shared the first few days of this Irish adventure.
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