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“You go to these places and all you can do is get lost!”

April 30, 2012

Hello Lucy, Hope you found a half decent engineer to fix your recent technical difficulties – all the ones I know are on holiday!  Glad you have arrived safely and have started your big trip.  Back in Tullyroan the two Mrs. Ds are hacking into Ryan’s computer to bring you more pearls of wisdom whether […]

“I was never further than my back door, so how on earth did I get to America?”

April 29, 2012

Hello Lucy, Malkie and Ryan, Just wondering if you have made it to Portland?  I told your Nanny you should be in Oregon by now and she said that wrung a bell.  She then remembered her first trip to America was to visit Doris and Stephen in Oregon all by herself – she took her sister for […]

Packing Notes

April 27, 2012

Does anyone actually enjoy packing? Yes there is the anticipation of the long-awaited holiday – the imaginings of sun, sea and surf, the poolside cocktails, the lazy lunches (though in our case perhaps its more the flat tires and roadside assistance). But for me packing is an unhappy fact of going on holiday, the part […]

“Sure I did that too”

April 25, 2012

While Lucy, Malkie and Ryan are up to high doe about the forthcoming road trip in America, their grandmother is much more sanguine. Pictures have emerged of the road trip Mrs. D was on in the West Coast with her sister Mrs. T Well, that’s no road trip I hear you say… but here’s the […]

80mph

March 20, 2012

This might be the kind of conversation we have on the road… http://www.todaysbigfail.com/view/20120320

The Tullyroan Travelogue

March 19, 2012

Thank you for reading the Tullyroan Travelogue. When Lucy, Malkie and Ryan arrive in Portland, Oregon, on the 28th April they probably have no idea of what is in store for them… However, on this blog you can follow the trails and trials of their journey. There will be triumphs (Malkie’s chocolate brownies), there will be […]