the year thats been for Jeannie

Well since the first Girlie Tour ssoooooo much has happened in the year to both of the girlettes . We ll start with a quick log of Jeanne s year which I might like to add ,REALLY does permit me to exile status !!
Having driven up from Marbella last july in a record time of 10 hours to Biarritz, I was welcomed by my navigator Emer , who had decided to fly there to join me and do the final leg of the journey we had started together 5 weeks previous. She had the hotel booked , the champagne a chillin and the party zone mapped out , the girlies DID Biarritz and drove on the next day to Mont St Michel , stunning stunning , a must for would be cross country drivers . The luxury liner at Cherbourg took us to Rosslare and believe me the worst part of the whole journey was rosslare - Dublin.
The Summer continued with our most memorable trip to Caherdaniel with Jack Fifi SJ and Harry three tents , no baby 6 torches , rain jackets , 3 tents , BBQ , Guitar and heavy rain . It was, I have to say, the most fantastic three nights , we had such mighty crack with the kids . Hopefully to be continued this year .
Mid September I headed back to Marbella to close the sale of my new 20sq foot villa on the beach at Bahia , much wheeling and dealing later I got the keys and a new phase in my life in Marbella began .
I drove straight from there and headed to Gibraltar where I met with my very interesting crew for my week of sailing in the med and down into Morocco as in Smear . All the wrong clothes (whats new ) lived in my jeans for the whole week , night sailed across the Straits and learned loads , competent crew cert awarded I left Gib a happy girlie whirlie !
November took me to visit Nick in Newcastle , where we had an absolute blast at the Killer
s concert , tiny venue , 2000 people , front row , never to be done again !!!
Back to Spain twice in November to order furniture and meet with interior designers etc to turn the new gaff into the amazing gaff it is right now !
Then the Birthday was coming up and shit whats a girl to do , refuse an invite from her bestest buddy Emer to go to Marbella for it ??????
Christmas came , Tenebo 24 great day much singing and dancing late into St Stephens day and then time to pack the whole family off Skiing , ok new gaff means no holiday or cheap holiday so me and my family being of similar minds , we chose the cheap holiday . Andorra !!! Never again , well what can I say , you bloody well live and learn . a winter of feck all snow a tacky village , but We as a family had the usual ,, mighty crack together . Much money won by Fifi from the guys !!
OK missed out on a memorable trip to Brooklodge with Dougie after christmas , lots of massages and eating !!!
Back from skiing 4 days and hey its Dads birthday and DH and I made a surprise visit to him in Bahia for 4 days . you re not 72 every day of the week .
Back home drudge drudge , ski time again , just a weekend with the usual suspects , Eamonn and Lorraine , Ruth and Greg , and Nora and Paul. We just had the best crack , you start laughing at Dublin airport and Stop at dublin airport . fantastic skiers the lot of them , way too much food as usual and way too much wine at lunchtime . Liver history end of January.
February came and back to Marbella house stuff again .
Then SJ went off to Calcutta and Jeannie went to Peru volunteering . What a month that was
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My Moms 1st anniversary 23rd Feb , thanks to all the kids who went and spent the time with my Dad at Ardgillan .Where did the year go ??
The long awaited Thailand trip was almost cancelled for the 3rd time , but we got there and did Thailand . white water rafting , quad biking thru the jungle , powerboat around the islands , Bankok . Great trip , great country .
April took all of the Heathers and all the Dillon /Colleys to Marbella , rain rain and more rain , but Marbella being Marbella , there was loads on offer . We were also the only people out in thew new boat in the lashing rain !!
May came quick dash to Bahia with Nora for house stuff and a really chilled few days , and back again with the Ballymaloe six a few weeks later for much yoga walking and unfortunately wine !!!
June I passed the motor boat test so yippee will be now capable of taking the boat out in Marbella .
And here we are again a year later , how fast its come up on us , are we any different ? have we learnt anything ? I think loads !!!
We ve one shot at this thing called "LIFE" and no ones going to do it for us !!!!!!!! Happy reading