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We retrieve M’s laundry in Killybegs (£2.50) and head back to

our B & B.

We stop and pick up our only other hitchhikers on the way – a

young woman holding a two year old’s hand with a baby

strapped to her chest. It is raining and the wind is quite cold

by then. We take her and her little ones as far as the Ardra

turnoff. She said she still has 10 miles to go when we left her

out in the rain but she assures us she would be OK. We would

have taken her all the way to her destination but she won’t hear

of it. The two year old has very rosy cheeks but seems perfectly

happy to be out in the weather hitchhiking with his mom. We

figure they do it often.

We change clothes and went back to Wood Hill House again. I

have tarragon chicken with fresh peach and mixed veggies –

Cauliflower, potatoes and cooked cucumber. The cucumber is

as green as honeydew and tasted sort of like squash. Another

lovely meal but I guess we didn’t move along fast enough for

the Saturday crowd because the barman comes in and asks us
to move to the bar and have a complementary drink. We oblige

and M has a drink (I’m driving) but we wonder why they didn’t

just bring your check.

At the bar he figures the bill and forgets the glasses of wine we

had before dinner so we tell him and he adds them on but is
still several pounds light. We wonder how he keeps his job

with math like that. We leave the restaurant by 9:30 p.m. with

the sun still shining. We both kind of want to do something

else on a Saturday night but haven’t felt comfortable in the

Pubs so we decide to forget it.

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