Planning for a trip to Ireland

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I’ve mentioned that we’re going to visit our son in Melbourne in December. We’ve also been tossing around ideas for going to Ireland next year to see our younger son. For various reasons we’re not able to stay with them so accommodation costs figure hugely in our plans. I suggested we could perhaps look at a house-swap with someone in Ireland. The odds were perhaps against us. For starters, we don’t want to go in their winter and it would need to be within a reasonable driving distance of our son. And you’re entrusting your house, and possibly your car, to a stranger. And they’re doing the same of course. However, things often fall into place for us so we joined a house-swap site for 12 months, took photos of our place and went through all the steps. Once we joined, we had better access to what was available and one of the first places was saw within half an hour of our son by people whose first choice as a destination was Perth! It’s early days yet but we’re emailing back and forth. Wish us luck. Photo is Vince’s from Co. Mayo when we were there last time. The sign next to the sculpture reads ‘Donated by the Singapore Government to the people of Ireland, this bronze casting of ‘Counsellor II’ is in recognition of Mayo-born sculptor, Brother Joseph McNally’s invaluable contribution to the arts in Singapore.’