Salve Marine and home

We like Salve Marine.

Definitely the place to stay and / or  leave your boat when visiting Cork.
Easy access and a nice long visitors' pontoon, that even I can cope with.
Great value. Free electricity. Diesel on the pontoon (with a nice long hose that reaches your boat).
Free showers. Massive engineering workshop. Short walk to an excellent Chippy and to a most excellent Pub Restaurant (The Anchor) with the best plaice I've ever eaten.  But most of all, a relaxed atmosphere, where we felt really welcome and where the owner and his team would sort out anything we needed.

Three days in Salve!
No sailing required.
A nice walk to Carrigaline along a riverside footpath made from the disused railway line.
Fish and Chips and the odd half of Murphys.
All very relaxing.

Here's Jean relaxing.

It was even sunny and warm .. it would be, now we've stopped sailing

Wednesday.
The marina owner gave us a lift to Cork Airport and we whizzed home via Ryan-air.

A couple of other things about Salve Marine.
1. When we came here first there were four penguins huddled on a small iceberg just west of the pontoon.
(I didn't comment at the time for fear of looking silly).
2. When we returned, the iceberg and its penguins had gone but I noticed two penguins playing chess in the Marina Bistro while the other two were relaxing on deck chairs.
It all seems slightly odd now I mention it.

Footnote:
Great to be home again.
Bonzo looked pleased to see us.
What our family pet and guard dog seems to be having difficulty with is, in essence, appreciating his role.
He is supposed to attack (eat even) intruders.  I retrospect, I'm not too upset about the tropical fish and Nibbles (the hamster) was getting on a bit and had probably already had quite a good life,  but the TV remote ...
Awesome digestive system that dog has.