Now we are home we decided to go and find The Irish Letterbox. There had previously been a letterbox nearby which was called An Bosca Litreacha Eireannach, which means The Irish Letterbox. It had vanished and been replaced with one call An Tuairisceain Bosca Litir Eireannach which means The Irish Letterbox Returns. We definitely had to go and find a letterbox (hobby meaning) which was about Irish Letterboxes (postbox meaning). On the way Fireball stopped to have his photo taken on top of a Classic Irish Green Letterbox:-
Fireball wasn't very happy about all the seagull dirt and rust on it, but that is what happens when a letterbox is beside the sea :-(
The letterbox (hobby meaning) was in the area of a nearby castle and required the use of a compass. The clue took us all around the castle which was interesting and then we finally had to look under a moss covered tile. Fireball got a bit carried away looking in the hole:-
But he found it ! We opened the box and great excitement, there was an American Hitchhiker inside it :-) It took us quite a while to stamp up everywhere correctly. The HH had to have an image of the letterboxes stamp as well as our signature stamps. There was another letterbox nearby which we also found but it was too small to leave the HH in so we took the HH with us to plant in a larger box elsewhere. Hopefully some American letterboxers will find it and take it back to America with them.
