On
Thursday we flew through the night, and arrived at Heathrow. That
airport is a-MAZE-ing!!!! Whoever designed it is absolutely crazy.
There is a waiting area, and you only get told your gate 30-40 mins
before boarding....our gate was 78, and, you guessed it! - a 25 min
walk to it!!!!! Bizarre! I had a sleep in the waiting area, and
Darryl tried, but a couple of minutes after he fell asleep...we got
our gate! I was too scared of missing the flight to wait, so woke
him...and we raced towards it. We made it in plenty of time...but had
to go through security a second time. I would hate to be slow and
elderly with this system. In Dublin we finally found our car-hire
place, and got sorted. They had a bus to collect the vehicle – it
was supposed to be a Yaris, but they upgraded us to a diesel Corolla.
Then we had to try and use the GPS to find our B&B...nup...the
address doesn't exist! Great! Well, I suppose this IS Ireland!
Eventually I rang and got the directions – everything here is
navigated via a Pub! It was the 4th house behind a Pub up
for sale. Just as we drove in the driveway, a really heavy rain
shower came down. The owners of “Pine Lodge” at Brittas could not
have been nicer, Margaret and Tony, and the accomodation was
terrific. We were so tired, we managed to drink the cuppa that they
prepared and then just crashed.
Wow! Green, Green, Green!
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