Next up was our trip to Smithfield for the Down To Earth make urban spaces more green thing.
We were up early and on the road to Dublin from Killaloe to Dublin following a hearty breakfast in the guest house.
We were in loads of tiime for the gig so we rambled over to the Tumble Circus and said hello to Ken and Tina and got to help them to set up their rig. Smithfield is right in the heart of Dublin and the big open space in the middle is perfect for what we do apart from the cobble stones which makes the monkey bikes hard going and the unicycle stuff impossible. The pogo stuff was also a real challenge but then Ronaldo loves a challenge and is completely reckless he does also sport a unique set of curls.Plenty of stuff going on in the line of colourful stilt characters walking around the tumble crew and ourselves, musical acts a market and various workshops all organised by the Down To Earth crew who have these cool tshirts and a cool logo good on you i say to anyone trying to make our urban spaces blossom.
We had good crowds for the shows and the only thing that detracted from the day was the weather which was dodgy at best at the end of one of the two shows that we did it did begin to rain but the crowd had bought in to the show by then and stayed to the end. I think that the Tumble crew enjoyed their shows also they seemed to have very good audiences for both of their shows their show never fails to make me laugh and at the same time gasp with amazement at the skill on display top class, actually they had had their van freshly painted and i though that they had bought a new van.
So that was smithfield we also managed to sneak in a visit to the center of the city and a visit to some music stores where we both fell prey to temptation.
We got back on the road and charged our way down to Kerry.
On the road down the threats of rain turned into reality when the skies opened up and the rain came unfortuantely the transporter does not have a hovercraft mode which would have been handy in the prevaling conditions. It was absoulutely biblical torrential monsoon like and very heavy also.It is a very wet summer and getting wetter we may have to consider changing the name of the show to "Wetwish" cos this what we are getting.