Summer time means bust times.

Been a long time since I've had a chance to update.
So as the title says summer time is busy time. So many lovely new guests have come and gone. I have had 16 for dinner most nights. Which means two seatings and lots of panic and stress. But all in all good fun.
We have had to make a few adjustments to menus to suit our guests and their tastes but it's all in the day of the life of a host family.

Gone to the dogs

What a great fun week it was last week.It started Saturday the 25th with the arrival of Endika a return guest from the summer. Followed by two lovely french girls on Sunday. It was a nice start and easy lead up to what was to follow. On Tuesday Hadrien and his girlfriend Adeline arrived in the morning and Julie that afternoon.This brought to 14 including our family for dinner in the evenings.It was a very nice week with a lovely mix of people and personalities.On the Friday night we all went to the dog racing track for a night of greyhound racing, betting and fun.

The calm before the storm

It's been a quite few weeks with my three lovely guests. But the quite will be shattered this weekend with the arrival of six guests over the space of two days.
This means a few things from getting the rooms ready, bringing the extra dinner table out of storage to all round chaos, excitment and nerves. So we will have a busy fun filled few weeks ahead. My oldest guest to date will also be arriving. A French man who is 60. It will be a whole new experience for us as mostly the guest are younger or of equal age to us. My hope is that he will enjoy his time here and won't find it to draining being around so much noise and bustle.
Meanwhile my daily check on the homestay website continues as I contact potential guests and hope they choose to stay with our family.

hello. Good bye

What a hectic week. Since Sunday I have had three airport runs with four new arrivals. Two of whom were French & a two day stay (left yesterday), one Italian, five day stay (leaves tomorrow morning) and a German guy for a long stay (will be with us for thirteen weeks).
It's nice being busy but I sometimes feel with the shorter stay guests we reakly don't get a lot of time to know them or they us. It is fun though sitting around the table in the evening for dinner and hearing about their day, what they did and their over all impressions of life in Dublin.
I have a quiter week this week, with just two guests but next week things will start picking up. First to arrive on Friday will be my new French guest. She is hoping to stay with us for four months while she attend college in Dublin.
So I'll relax while I can cause busy times lay ahead

Good bye to the old hello to the new.

New year means new guest, and new friends to make. My two French guest leave us in the 8th January, but I'll soon after be joined by 3 short stay guests and one long term guest (all French).
I'll be sad to see our present guests leave they have been with us for more than two months. But as always excited to meet who ever comes next it looks set to be a busy but not hectic Jan and Feb with 6 confirmed booking and two pending.