Black Ice

This is the hotel that locked me out!!! Needed to be in the Wicklow Mountains early Monday morning so traveled down Sunday night to avoid the expected black ice... Booked in and requested an early breakfast.... "Breakfast starts at 9" she said, "but we could do something for you for 8". I need to be gone by 730am" I said. "Oh. The doors will be locked... but you can get out through the fire door"... And they were....so I did.
As I wanted moonlit photos of the old monastery at Glendalough I met a friend living locally at 8pm who took me for a three hour moonlit walk in the valley. Have to say I left there with very special, lasting memories..... Went for a drink at a local hotel and sat by the wood fire which in itself was worth the trip down.....and as a further bonus met an old work colleague I hadn't seen in ten years!!!
Got back to my hotel and found the all of the doors locked.....and no bell... Managed to get in...eventually after hammering on the bar door...
Would I go back and do the same things again?........in a heartbeat!!....just saying