The flight from Bangkok to heathrow went off smoothly. I managed to get 2hrs sleep. I had difficulty sleeping and then I stuck on 'Marley and me' on the tv screen. I slept like a baby for the two hours it was on and woke up as it finished. I couldn't get back to sleep after that. Pity it wasn't 4hrs long. Everything went smooth at Heathrow and the Aer Lingus flight went out on time. Padraig met me at the airport and by 11am we were in Rush having tea and playing football with his two little nippers on a glorious day in north Dublin. Mum came up and brought me home. By evening we were back in North Leitrim and that was it. From Bunos Aires to Bangkok. It was a good adventure.
Part 2 of the travels is over. I'll be at home for the next 4 weeks or so and then I'll be on the road again, back on the bike. I plan to follow the trail of Francisco De Cuellar, a sailor of the spanish Armada in 1588 and survivor of one of the ships wrecked off Steedagh strand in Co. Sligo. He found refuge for a number of months in North Leitrim before making his way home via the north of Ireland, Scotland and Flanders on his way home back to Spain. I plan to follow this route and explore his story all the way back to his home town north of Madrid in Castille. Along the way I will join the old medieval pilgrim route of the Camino Santiago which overlaps with my route. Once I complete that I plan to turn east and cross Europe, after that? Who knows.....we'll see how far I get........ Right now I'm looking forward to easter, catching up with the three little nephews and seeing the the big cousin, Johnny G, getting married.
........To be Continued........
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