All, What a great trip we had to Ireland and our stay in Donegal. After staying in Dublin for four days we rented a car and drove to Donegal via Dundalk, Castleblayney, Enniskillen. Great highways, some are a bit narrow----. At least I had the M1 to allow a few miles to get tuned into driving and controls (wrong side) and from the other side of the road. It was fun once over the initial hour or so. Donegal in our opinion is the prettiest county- greenest which is understandable since it rained most days. I was amazed at what I saw in the county after listening to all those stories from my mother and other family members of what it WAS like. I found a super modern country, most homes that anyone in Canada would like to have. It is a place that I could move to at any time. We stayed at the Donegal Manor for seven days and it is a first class (new) B&B, my rating is 5/5 with one additional point for the hosts (6/5), they were of immense help and just get hospitality. The B&B is super modern with a great breakfast----the best B&B we stayed in for the 21 days in Ireland. I was lucky to meet a lady in the Frosses Cemetery, she asked me who I was looking for ---Griffith (in)/Brogan---she is a Griffith, she asked what townland they came from --Scrawhill--she is a Scrawhill Griffith----what luck. She phoned her father and set me over to his house,lots of talk, along with tea (we take it black no sugar) he asked if we did not have cows in Canada- great sense of humour. He then took us out to see the family farm area, the family was not there but had a look at the general area. He then took us to another family member but again no one home. To bad since this was my last day in Donegal. He then took us to the Killymard cemetery and showed us the plots. Unfortunately my old members were at the bottom of the apartment block and they were not included on the new head stones but alias we saw the sites. I now have a known member of my GM family, so the trip was worth while, we will keep in touch but again all of us are getting older so time flies bye. I will have to made another trip soon................... Also met a couple of other very interesting Mountcharles area people who helped us out. We drove all over Donegal, Slieve League, Dunfanaghy, Letterkenny, Killybegs, Inver, Ballybofey and many more. We also were able to get two rounds of golf in, Ballybofey GC and the Donegal GC. Really enjoyed playing our first round on a Links golf course. a real challenge and met some other golfers who helped us out in dealing with the course. We also had our narrow road encounter with a bus on the Malin road, had to pull the mirrors in back up a bit and tuck the car into the side and the bus passed with no more than 2 inches between us, my wife had a fit and all the bus people just looking down at us and betting we would hit --but I trust the bus driver who had encountered this many times in the past (I think). And after all these years of talking via the List I had the opportunity of meeting Margaret Graham, we had a great couple of hours together (hope she agrees). We discussed many aspects of family names and related matters. A big thank you to Margaret for taking the time to me us. I have many headstone pictures to post to my photo sites but this will take time to organize. From Donegal we drove south to Galway for four days, had a great visit in the area and also went to the Inismore Island, took the tour bus for 3 hours and saw most of the Island sights. Then south to Dingle/Kerry, the second nicest county in Ireland that we saw. We crossed by ferry on the Shannon River, down the coast road. Toured the Dingle area, across the Connor Pass--had an ice cream cone at the top from a Snack Wagon--he had a great business from the number of people eating ice cream and snacks. From Dingle we had two free days (no bookings) drove to Adare across to Wexford/Rossiare and stayed at Killiane Castle. The next day we drove to Portlaoise via Kilkenny and a tour of the castle. Sunday headed back to Dublin via Kildare, Naas. We spent our last night in the Dublin airport area and flew back home via Heathrow in England It was a wonderful trip and enjoyed it very much and will return in a year or so. The next time I will make better arrangements to meet those people that are important, we missed a number of List members and I regret this, it is always nice to meet those we deal with year in and year out but I messed up in my planning, maybe the golf should have been left off, but again I could not visit Ireland and not have played at least one round on a Links golf course. Did not go into our visits in the non Donegal areas in this post but we had a great time in each area. Long but needed to say what we did and thank all those Members who have contributed to our visit Thank you Bob Cdn =============================================