Yikes! Sun!

As I said yesterday, we finally saw some prolonged sunshine. Elaine got to take a walk and I drove in to meet her at SuperValu. Just to prove there actually was sunshine looking out our windows:

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Dinner at Solas was grand as usual. Ann and Nicky, who run the place, have become good friends, The food was delicious. I look old and tired. Hopefully that’s partly because of the bad cold I continue to battle as opposed to impending death. (Little joke, sort of) Solas closes Thursday night until March. The Half Door where we eat Friday closes this weekend until the end of March. And the Chart House closed last night until March when we were the last ones to leave the building. Restaurant-wise, Dingle will be pretty desolate for the rest of January and February.

We shared, amongst a couple of other things:

Solas Confit Tomatoes with Grilled Bacus Sour Dough Bread (YUM)

Pino Doncel Wine from Spain

Queen Scallop Ceviche with Apple, Ginger, & Soy

Moorish Spiced Chorizo Sausages

Annascual Belly of Pork with Carrot and Anise and Sesame and Grilled Baby Gem

There was no room for dessert! As we left it was still rain free, so we walked up Green Street past St Mary’s Church and had a drink at Curran’s and watched some of the British World Dart’s Championship from London. It was the semifinals. The eventual winner will get £500,000. For throwing darts! One of the semifinalists is 16 years old. Women compete in the same competition but all (two, I think) were eliminated early on.

Then it was home to bed.