We all live on top of each other, especially my Dad's family. Some of my cousins are like sisters to me!
Although during the week my brother and I live in Dublin, our parents live in Wexford, my other brother lives in Galway and my sister lives in Limerick.
its like this
GALWAY--------140Miles------->DUBLIN
! !
V ----------------- ---------------- V
65 miles ------------------------- 105 miles
V V
LIMERICK------95 miles------->HOME
My Dad has three brothers and a sister, we live in the village where he was born, two brothers live three miles away, his sister lives ten miles away and his other brother lives 35 miles away (he has a summer house in our village!)
Mam's family are a bit more spread out. The village we live in is an hour from Gran's (gran lives halfway between where i live and where my parents live) My aunt lives next door to Gran and my uncle two miles away from that. Another aunt lives in Dublin, about five miles from me (50 miles from Gran, 100 miles from my village at home) and the furthest away is my Mam's youngest sister, she lives in Mayo about five hours from home/four hours from Gran/three hours from me. Mam visits Gran every two weeks or so, depending on if she is working.
We have only had one Christmas where one of us was away, my brother was in Australia. We only have the eight of us for Christmas Day. When Granny and Grandad were alive we had them for Christmas Dinner once, but they used to call down for their tea about 6 o'clock
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