Improving Ireland's Climate MKII - This time with a MKII - Caution: Contains Spikey!

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

It makes for nice photographs, if nothing else. 

 

So Ken Barlow the Estate is coming back at the weekend?

[Cavcraft]

Take it the economy is still knackered? Sister and brother-in-law want to move there as they have land (b-i-l is a native) but can't afford to at the moment.

 

Anyhow, pictures all seem to be working now , thankfully.

[Dirk Diggler]

Take it the economy is still knackered? Sister and brother-in-law want to move there as they have land (b-i-l is a native) but can't afford to at the moment.

 

Anyhow, pictures all seem to be working now , thankfully.

Dublins booming; Ireland's a strange place; the economy is on the grow for some and in the toilet for others

 

It depends on what you do for a living; plenty of jobs would still have wages higher than the UK, but for the most to make a living you need to be commuting distance to Dublin

[Eddie Honda]

Take it the economy is still knackered? Sister and brother-in-law want to move there as they have land (b-i-l is a native) but can't afford to at the moment.

Take it the Pound is still knackered?

[Junkman]

Prices in Ireland are just insane, that's all.

Rip off UK is by no means a cheap place to live, but in Ireland you pay for Switzerland but get Dystopia.

[Largactil]

As a recent arrival from the UK, I still struggle to get my head around the property market here.

 

You can buy a mansion in the country for pennies (although you'll need oil & septic tanks as there's no sewage / gas pipes out there), but a 3 bed semi in a reasonable area of Dublin / inside the M50 ring road is €450k+

[artdjones]

Most people here actually don't like living in damp and discomfort.The only people who do tend to be masochistic foreigners.There aren't enough of those to buy up all these wrecks and semi wrecks so they get left to fall down.The Irish people tend to prefer a new bungalow.Of course a lot of areas are more prosperous than what we can see in the pictures.

[Junkman]

They aren't more prosperous, they are more overindebted, with the only colleteral being a speculative property bubble.

Toxic, to say the least and simply not sustainable.

 

Anyway, Spikey

 

 

and I made it to the ferry port.

 

 

 

This ship took us back to Blighty.

 

 

 

The Beastestate did a sterling job apart the single conk outage.

The only repair it received on the entire tour was a slow puncture being fixed.

 

It still has an ever so slight blow from the exhaust, the water pump is now profoundly leaking and the carburetter does need an overhaul.

A carburetter overhaul kit had arrived while I was away. If it could just install itself now...

[DeeJay]

 

With the only difference being that in Ireland at least no no go areas form,

because its inhabitants are just too friendly.

 

I'd like to see that theory tested in somewhere like Rathkeale or perhaps Moyross.

[Junkman]

When will we go?

[DeeJay]

You'd have to take S'Pikey incognito.

[Squire_Dawson]

This hitherto escaped my attention, another Granada Junkman? Well done sir.