Ireland, Scotland 2011
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from Ireland and Scotland - 2011
Day 1, 2, 3, 4 (September 27 – September 30, October 1)
The original plan was to catch the 1:00 PM Van Galder bus (leaves Dutch Mill P&R at 1:15 PM) to
O’Hare. Arrive at terminal 5 at 4:05 PM. On further consideration
we decided to catch the 11:45 bus in order to arrive at terminal 5 at 2:35
PM. We checked in and had lunch before going through security.
Flight to Ireland
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Aer Lingus 124 Economy
| Airbus Industrie A330
(330) | 7hr 40min | 3666 miles
Seats: 38D, 38E, 38F, 38G
Your flight is confirmed. Seats are confirmed.
The flight was uneventful. Jim and
Barbara had the beef pot roast and Brian and Sharon had the chicken dinner.
This is an overnight flight.
Car rental
Hertz midsize (Opel Insignia).
187.75 Euros. Pickup, return to Dublin airport. The Insignia was
midsize, but the trunk was not large enough for all our
luggage. We finally settled on a Peugot
8500. This is a seven passenger vehicle, but with the last row of seats
folded down we were able to stow all the luggage and
still see out the back window.
Lodging
CLAREMONT HOUSE
Town Houses
Telephone
number: +353 1 2805346
Fax number: +353 1 2805346
E-mail: harkinann@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.claremonthouse.net/
Ann Harkin
Claremont House,
7 Claremont Villas,
(off Adelaide rd)
Glenageary
Dun Laoghaire,
Co. Dublin.
*Claremont House states that there is a 2% discount if you pay cash instead
of using the credit card for payment.
Activities in Dublin
Also, there is what seems to be a
discussion with the author (free) on the 29th.
Sept 28
We had a slight problem on the
way to Claremont House from the airport. I must have made the wrong entry
in the GPS (or SatNav, as it is called there) and we
ended up close to Auburn House (more about Auburn House later). I found a
helpful person on the street who explained that we were nowhere near Dun Laoghaire. I corrected the GPS entry and we
found Claremont House without any other problems. There was a problem
with the Claremont House reservation, however. Ann had not received my
last email confirming the fact that we really did want to stay there.
They had rooms available for the
first two nights but did not have two rooms for the last two nights. We
made reservations at the Moat
Lodge in Lucan for the last two nights. After 
unloading and getting settled
we went a few blocks up Adelaide
Rd. to the Eagle
House pub for lunch. Sharon and Barbara had vegetable soup, Brian had
fish and roasted potatoes, and I had Shepard’s (sic)
pie. Daniel Harkin runs a restaurant (Daniel’s) in
downtown Dun Laoghaire (or maybe Glenageary, it’s hard to tell which is which) and we made
reservations there for supper. That supper was the culinary highlight of
the trip. I had the salmon terrine and chicken, Sharon had Prawns Pernod,
Barbara had Lobster Thermidor, and Brian had steak
and dauphine potatoes. Daniel invited us into the kitchen to watch some
of the preparation, and that was very interesting.
Sept 29
We drove to the Glenageary DART station, which was
fairly close to Claremont House, and used Sharon’s
disabled parking permit to park close to the station.
We took the DART from Dun Laoghaire to Pearse station
in Dublin city center, and walked from the
station to Trinity
College, where we took in
the Book of Kells and the Long Room, as well as a lot of good
college ambience. We had lunch at O’Neill’s,
just outside Trinity, and then went to the tourist information center and
bought tickets for the Dublin
bus tour. It was raining and misting, so it was not a good day for
pictures on the tour. We all stayed inside the bus on the lower
level. We got off the tour near the Pearse DART
station and walked past the Oscar Wilde residence on the way back to the
station. We got on the DART to Dun Laoghaire
and then transferred to the train to take us to Glenageary.
We went back to the Eagle House pub for supper. Jim and Barbara had fish
and chips, Brian and Sharon
had Irish stew. We found out that the Dublin Theater Festival was on,
and that we could see the National Company performing Juno and the Paycock , so we called and reserved tickets for the 30th
(opening night, the 29th, was sold out).
Sept 30
We packed up and said farewell to Ann and Daniel and set off
for Dublin city
center. We found a parking lot and split up. Sharon and I were
planning on going to the GPO
(Post Office) and Brian and Barbara had other plans. While we were
discussing plans in front of ECM (a local university) we met one of the ECM
professors, Mark, who inquired if we were lost, and when we assured him that we
knew where we all were headed, left for lunch. On the way to the GPO we
decided to lunch at the Insomnia Coffee Shop, saw Mark there, and ended up
lunching with him. We talked about Wisconsin
and he talked about Dublin
and his job as ESL teacher at ECM. We did get to the GPO in time for
Sharon to purchase the stamps she wanted, but were not in time to tour the
museum there, as Sharon had wanted
to do. On the way back we stopped at Eason’s book store and bought a copy
of Before the Poison, a book by Peter Robinson that we had found was
available in Ireland, but not in the USA. We met Barbara and Brian and
started our drive to Moat Lodge in Lucan. A wrong turn on the freeway
took us out of our way, but we eventually found the Moat Lodge. We
unloaded and got settled, and decided to leave early for supper in Dublin. We took a
cab into Dublin,
where it was raining, and looked for a place to have supper. We had
supper (I think it was at Murray’s, on
O’Connell Street) and walked a lot to get to the Abbey Theater. There was a little
mix-up about the tickets; the festival had taken our money but had not sent the
tickets over to be picked up. The box-office person wrote that up and
assured us that it would all right, but no one told that to the usher, who was
reluctant to let us in without an actual ticket. We insisted, and
eventually were seated. We got a cab to take us back to the Moat Lodge,
but it was dark now and I had not taken the precaution of writing the Lodge
phone number or directions to the Lodge, and brought them with me. The
cab driver eventually got us to the Lodge.
Oct 1
This was the day of the
long-awaited drive to Avoca, site of many
of the scenes from one of our favorite PBS TV shows, Ballykissangel.
We started out in a drizzle that turned to fairly heavy rain while we were on
the way, but returned to a drizzle as we turned off onto the smaller roads to
Avoca. The GPS worked well, and after thinking about the small, twisty
back roads we traveled I don’t know how we ever would have found Avoca without
it. We strolled through town (actually, just down the one main street) to
Fitzgerald’s
and decided it was close enough to lunch that we should go on in and
order. Fitzgerald’s was playing tapes of the Ballykissangel
series on their television, which we found entertaining. While we were
waiting to order we were 
met by three nuns from Sinsinawa (Sinsinawa
Mound Center
is about 90 miles from Madison).
They were in Ireland
celebrating their
Jubilee year. We all talked about how remarkable it was to meet, and
about Edgewood, which had been staffed largely
by Sinsinawa sisters. After lunch we walked
back through Avoca and drove the short distance to the Avoca Woolen Mills.
We toured the gift shop there, and then walked through the mill itself, getting
an idea of how the wool was woven into scarves and blankets. We took the
back roads through the Wicklow Mountains
(terrific scenery, but some frightening curves and drops) back to Lucan,
stopping at Leo’s for a snack and rest break. After we returned to the Moat
Lodge it was raining again, and we had a long discussion about where to go for
supper. We ended up at Kenny’s,
in downtown Lucan. I had a Cajun Chicken sub, Sharon had fish and chips, and Brian had sea
bass.
Day 5, 6, 7 (October 2 – October 4)
Drive to Limerick.
Use it as a base for exploration of Ring of Kerry, Dingle, and Cork area. Stop at
Rock of Cashel on the way from Dublin.
- Dublin – Limerick
via Cashel: 222 km, 2.6 hours
- Limerick –
Dingle:
149 km, 2.3 hours N21, N86
- Limerick – Kerry (Caherdaniel):
186 km, 2.8 hours N21
Limerick
area photos
Lodging
Marie Keran
Killeen House, Kilcornan, Co.
Limerick
Ireland
E-mail: Keran@eircom.net
Tel: 353 (0) 61 393023
Mobile: 353 (0) 87 6689987
Website: http://www.killeenhouse.net
Oct 2
We packed and left for the Limerick
area. We bypassed the Rock of Cashel but stopped for lunch at Andy’s in Nenagh
(yes, 
pronounced
Neenah).
We had Sunday Lunch there. I had the roast beef, Sharon had turkey, Barbara had lamb, and
Brian had chicken breast stuffed with black pudding. On our way to
Killeen House we took the Limerick Bypass, and never did have to suffer the
traffic in urban Limerick. We found
Killeen House easily (it was right on the N69, just west of Kilcornan.
After we unloaded and got settled we drove a few miles further on to Askeaton, where we found an ATM and a laundry. We
made use of the ATM, but the laundry was closed. We went back on the N69
to Kilcornan, to the Kilcornan
House for supper. I don’t remember
exactly when we noticed the prevalence of potatoes in the meals we
ordered. I think Brian held the record,
having been served potatoes prepared three ways at the same meal, chips (French
fries), roasted potatoes, and either boiled or mashed.
Oct 3
Today
was a ‘take it easy and rest’ day. We did drive into Adare,
a nice small village that didn’t quite live up to its billing as the prettiest
small town in Ireland.
Perhaps our expectations were too high. We spent some time at the tourist
and heritage center there (I cashed some travelers checks with no problems),
looked around the church next door and walked through the town. We had
lunch at Auntie Lena’s and drove back
to Killeen House. We eventually got our dirty clothes dropped off at the
laundry in Askeaton,
and thanks to a call from Marie we were assured that they would be ready the
next day. Then it was back to Adare for supper
at the Arches. It was a great dinner. I had steak, Barbara had
pork, Sharon
and Brian had lamb. It was when we were heading back to Adare and the Arches that Marie gave us directions for a
shorter trip. She said to take the road by the Killeen house until we come to ‘a dark
place’, and then turn left after the gates. We all remembered the part
about ‘a dark place’ for the rest of the trip.
Oct 4
This was the day of the expedition to the Jameson distillery, at Midleton, near Cork. We planned on about a two
hour drive to Midleton. We found that several
different brands used the one distillery, starting their batches through the
process separately. We had a little trouble locating the distillery once
we got to Midleton, but eventually found it.
The tour was most informative, explaining each step in the making of Irish
whiskey, and even pointed out some of the differences involved in distilling
Scotch. Brian, Barbara, and I volunteered to be taste testers, and we all
earned our certificates as whiskey experts. We had lunch at the
distillery cafeteria and then hurried back to Askeaton
to pick up our laundry before the laundry closed.
Day 8, 9, 10 (October 5 – October 7)
Drive to Galway.
Use Galway as a base for exploration of Aran Islands
(probably one day for Aran Islands), Cliffs of Moher, Ballycastle, Connemara, and the bogs.
- Limerick
– Galway: 101 km, 1.4 hours N18
- Galway – Ballycastle:
135km, 2.2 hours
- Galway
– Connemara: 84 km, 1.3 hours
Galway
area photos
Lodging
An
Caladh Gearr Thatched
Cottage
·
Your Unique Reservation Number: 995110046269-01
·
Arrival Dates: 05-Oct-2011 for 3 nights
·
Arrival Time: 16:00
·
Accommodation Property Reserved: AN CALADH GEARR THATCHED COTTAGE
·
Property Address: Knock, Spiddal, County Galway
·
Property Contact Number: 091 593124
· Number of
Persons in Party: 4 Adults
·
Rooms/Units Reserved: 1 Double Room En Suite 1 Twin Room En Suite
(this
is about 20 mi west of Galway – view of Galway Bay)
(No website, but Google An
Caladh Gearr Thatched
Cottage
for
info, reviews, etc.)
I see there are
laundry facilities listed for the cottage. This might have an effect
on what I pack.
* Credit cards are not accepted.*
Oct 5
This was pretty much a travel day. We packed and
reluctantly took our leave of Marie and Killeen House. If we had driven
back to Limerick and taken the highway to An Caladh Gearr Thatched Cottage,
Google maps and the GPS agreed that it would have taken about an hour and a
half. We thought it might be nice to take the ferry
across the Shannon and drive by the Cliffs
of Moher on the way, and that route was expected
to take three and a half hours. Once we were on our way, however, it
started to rain, and the wind started to blow harder, and we decided the Cliffs
of Moher would not be a reasonable thing to
attempt. We stopped for lunch at Collin’s in Lehinch
and while we were there chatted with a couple of other tourists at the next
table, who had been to the cliffs that morning. They applauded our
decision to bypass the cliffs, saying that when they had been there that
morning the wind had been so bad that they had difficulty standing. We
continued to Galway, and took the R336 west
along the Bay. We stopped at a thatched cottage and found that it was not
the correct thatched cottage, but the owner gave us good directions to the
proper place. We found the An Caladh Gearr Thatched Cottage, unloaded, and got settled. Maire and Michael suggested that we dine at An Cruiscin
Lan Hotel in Spiddal, and we had another good meal.
Oct 6
This was another ‘rest and shopping’ day. After
breakfast we drove into Spiddal and stopped by Standun’s. This was a large store, with a variety of
items, from gifts to books to clothing. I found an interesting and
informative book on Irish, Scottish and English genealogical
investigation. Sharon
found a nice sweater. Later on we went into Barna
and ate lunch at Donnelly’s
Pub, on Galway
Bay. Sharon and I
split a ham and cheese sandwich. After lunch we stopped at a small strip
mall that was anchored by a grocery store. It did have an ATM which we
made use of. We ate supper at Padraicins in Barna.
Later on, back at the B&B, we met a nice couple from Italy, and sat
talking for a while in the sitting room, in front of the peat fire.
Oct 7
We
took our big trip to the Aran
Islands today. We went to the largest of the islands (Inis Mor). It was about an
hour ride by ferry. We were surprised to find that the ‘luxury’ ferry
that we were on did not at least have a concession where we could buy
coffee. Kilronan, the town at the port on Inis Mor,
is a very small town with a definite tourist orientation. We managed to
not succumb to the various offers of bus tours or horse tours. We had
Irish coffees and cocoa at the Pier House and then walked
from the pier into Kilronan. We browsed in the Aran
Sweater Market and ended up eating lunch at the American Bar (it was full of local Inis Mor
people). Sharon and I split a sandwich and had some soup. After
lunch we walked up the street to the Spar store and used their ATM. Then
we walked back down by the docks and looked through the Aran
Woolen Mills store. We had tea and coffee at the Bayview Restaurant
and then went back to the ferry for the trip to the mainland. We stopped
for supper at Tir Na Nog on
the way back to the thatched cottage. I had the thai chicken, and Sharon had the fish and chips. The
restaurant sign had a harp and fiddle on it, and I took a picture of it for
Christa and Amanda.
Day 11 (October 8)
Return to Dublin.
We may want to do our bog tour on the way back to Dublin.
- Galway
– Dublin:
206 km, 2.1 hours M6
Lodging
Accommodation Property Reserved: AUBURN
Property Address: 61 Grace Park Terrace, Drumcondra, Dublin
9
Property Contact Number: 01 8378389
http://www.auburn.ie/
Oct 8
We planned to drive back to Dublin today. We had planned on
stopping by a bog, but most of the bog tours or bog information centers that we
could find had already closed, so we kind of left that part of the plan up in
the air. We packed and checked out of the thatched cottage and started
back to Dublin.
We decided to take an exit from the M6 for lunch and found ourselves in the
middle of the Ballinasloe October horse
festival. The Ballinasloe Fair web site claims 65,000 visitors over
the 9 day course of the fair, and we have no choice but to believe them.
If we hadn’t been trying to get back to Dublin
it might have been a very interesting stop, but as it was it took quite a bit
of stop and go driving to work our way through the
crowds of people and horses. After we finally got back on the M6 and
drove for a while we saw an exit for Clara and since Clara
was one of the cities with bogs listed next to them we decided to at least
lunch in Clara. Clara was full of white and black checkered flags and
banners. We asked about those and were told that was one of the ways the
town was supporting the ‘Ladies
Football Club’ in their coming match on Sunday (as near as I can figure
out, it looks as if they lost to St. Sylvester of Leinster).
We had lunch at the Mill in Clara and then continued on to… Auburn
House (I told you there would be more about Auburn House). On the way
from Clara to Dublin
on the M6 we passed a number of bogs that had peat being harvested from them,
so the bog effort didn’t get lost entirely. We found Auburn House with no
problems (after all we had been there once before), unpacked and got
settled. We ate supper at Fagan’s,
not too far from Auburn House.
Day 12 (October 9)
Fly from Dublin to Edinburgh. Drive to Fort William.
Flight 2: Sunday, October 9, 2011
Aer Lingus 254 Economy
| Airbus Industrie A320
(320) | 1hr 0min | 209 miles
|
Depart:
|
1:50pm
|
Dublin,
Ireland Dublin (DUB)
|
|
Arrive:
|
2:50pm
|
Edinburgh,
United Kingdom
Edinburgh (EDI)
|
Your flight is confirmed. The airline will assign seats
at check-in.
Car rental
Hertz midsize (Vauxhall Insignia)
(154.08 GBP). Pickup, return to Edinburgh airport. I had
modified our reservation at Edinburgh, based on
our experience with the Insignia in Ireland, and asked for a Focus
Station Wagon (since it held all our luggage on the
way to Dutch Mill, it should be OK). They didn’t have a Focus wagon
available, so we ended up with a Ford S-Max, another seven passenger
vehicle. It worked out just fine.
- Edinburgh – Fort William:
126 mi, 2 hours 58 mins
Scotland
photos
Lodging
Lochan
Cottage Guest House - Lochyside - Fort William PH33
7NX - Scotland
Telephone: +44 (0)1397 702 695 / E-mail: Lochanco@btopenworld.com
( http://www.fortwilliam-guesthouse.co.uk/)
Oct 9
This was another travel day. First we went to the
airport to get our flight to Edinburgh.
We ate lunch at the Dublin airport before the
flight to Edinburgh
left. After we arrived in Edinburgh
we picked up the car to start for the Lochan Cottage
Guest House. We called ahead to warn them that we might be late, but we
arrived in Ft. William by about seven, which was about the three hour drive
that Google maps and the GPS had both estimated. We did have to call from
the McDonald’s parking lot in Ft.
William to find out how
to get to the Lochan cottage, but once they gave us
an address that the GPS would accept there were no more problems. We had
supper at Lochy, which was recommended by Mieke
Bindels.
Day 13 (October 10)
Drive to Skye. Tour Skye.
- Fort William to Portree
(Skye) via Invergarry and Kyle of Lochalsh: 108 mi, 2 hours 33 mins
A82 and A87
Oct 10
We
did drive to Skye as we had planned. It was about a two hour drive to
Kyle. After crossing the bridge to Skye we decided
to look for a place to have lunch in Kyleakin, a very
small town, and found that the two restaurants (Saucy Mary’s and Castle Moil)
were both closed. We all agreed that we were disappointed not to be able
to say we ate at Saucy Mary’s. We decided to follow the A87 North on
Skye, and ate lunch at Red Skye,
near Broadford. We found an interesting series
of shops (yes, there was a book store) in Broadford,
and spent some time there. We continued north on the A87 as far as Luib, but at that point we estimated that we ought to start
back if we wanted to get back to Ft. William before dark. We enjoyed the
scenery that we saw on Skye, and regretted that we did not have time to further
explore the island. On the way back to Ft. William
we stopped at Letterfinlay Lodge, next to Loch Lochy,
for tea. For supper we decided to try the Glen
Nevis Restaurant, located more or less at the foot of Ben Nevis (highest mountain
in the British Isles), and very close to Ft. William. It was another
great meal at a good restaurant.
Day 14 (October 11)
Return to Edinburgh
via Glamis, Perth
and Crieff.
- Fort William to Glamis:
114 mi, 2 hours 37 mins A9
- Glamis to Perth:
29 mi, 45 min
- Perth to Edinburgh via
Crieff, Stirling:
69 mi, 1 hour 32 mins
Lodging
MacIntosh Guest House
Address: 21 Downie Terrace
Edinburgh EH12 7AU Scotland
Telephone: +44 (0)131 3343108
Email: macintoshguesthouse@yahoo.co.uk
Website: www.macintoshguesthouse.co.uk
Oct 11
The A9, that we took much of the way to Glamis Castle,
went through part of, and along the edge of an area label
ed
the Forest of Atholl.
This was a wild and undeveloped area. The GPS lead us to one of the
closed side entrances of the Glamis Castle Grounds,
but we were able to follow the signs around to the main entrance and drive in.
We realized that we didn’t have time to take the tour of the inside of
the castle, so we wandered about the gift shop for a while, decided not to have
lunch at the castle cafeteria, and took some pictures around the outside of the
castle. We set out for Crieff, stopping for
lunch at the Village Gallery and Cafe near Miegle,
not too far from Glamis. The GPS took us on
small, back roads (maybe that was all there was) to Crieff,
but we eventually got there and found the visitor
center, where the Caithness
glass and paperweight factory was located. We browsed in the Caithness shop for a while, and Sharon bought some paperweights (I bought
one, too). We left Crieff and headed for our
last stop, the MacIntosh Guest House in Edinburgh. On the
way we passed through Muthill, and we think we found the B&B that we had
stayed at there the previous time we visited Scotland. We had a little
trouble locating the MacIntosh Guest House in Edinburgh, and some more
trouble parking in front of the house, but we eventually got unloaded and
settled. We walked half a block to the Jade House and had good Chinese
for supper. We must have been ahead of the crowd, when we arrived there
were only one or two tables occupied, but by the time we left there was a good
crowd.
Day 15 (October 12)
Oct 12
We decided to try the Edinburgh
bus system for transportation downtown. I talked to a couple of people at
the bus stop across the street and they recommended taking the ‘100’ bus, which
was more of an express that the others. We also found that exact change
was needed, so Brian and I started out to try to get change for the four of
us. We ended up at the Holiday Inn across the street, intending to buy a
paper, both for the paper and as a way of getting change. All of their
papers were complimentary copies, so Brian and I each bought a cup of coffee
and read the papers at the Holiday Inn before heading back. Brian had a
balance problem on the way back to the Guest House, so he and Barbara decided
not to go with Sharon and me to downtown Edinburgh.
We stayed on the bus until we got to the main transfer point by Waverly Bridge, and started looking for clan
memorabilia for ourselves and Carlsons. We were
disappointed in the Princes Street
Mall but remembered that we had passed a store, Pride of Scotland, while on
the bus. Pride of Scotland turned out to
have good selection at reasonable prices. Sharon bought some Baird plaid scarves for
Brian and Barbara, and a Gordon plaid for herself. We asked one of the
salespeople about a place for tea, and he gave us directions to a place on Rose Street, which
we never found. We had lunch across the street from the Pride of
Scotland, at a place called Tiles.
We took the bus back to the Guest House, and decided on supper at the Toby Carvery, just up the street on St. John’s Road.
The food was good, and there was plenty of it.
Day 16 (October 13)
See sights in Edinburgh
Oct 13
With our early flight to Dublin scheduled at 8:20 we decided that it
would be better to take the last night at an airport hotel, turn the car in the
night before, and take a shuttle to the airport. We packed the car and
checked out of the MacIntosh Guest House, but left
the car in front of the Guest House and we all took the ‘100’ bus
downtown. We returned to the Pride of Scotland, and did some browsing and
shopping there, and then went to Tiles for lunch. We took the bus back to
the car and started out for the Quality Airport Hotel. We went by the
airport, and kept on going, and Sharon
said ‘this can’t be right, we are too far away to find
the airport hotel here.’ I had faith in the GPS, until we ended up in a
grocery store parking lot, with the GPS repeating ‘you have reached your
destination.’ We called the Quality Hotel and got an actual address, more
or less, and eventually made our way to the Quality Hotel. Sharon and I
turned the car in, and when we got back we met the Carlsons
and had supper at the Hotel.
Day 17 (October 14)
Return to Chicago
Flight 3: Friday, October 14, 2011
Aer Lingus 3251 Economy
| Aerospatiale/ Alenia ATR72
(AT7) | 1hr 10min | 209 miles
Operated by: AER ARANN. Please check in with
the operating carrier.
|
Depart:
|
8:20am
|
Edinburgh,
United Kingdom
Edinburgh (EDI)
|
|
Arrive:
|
9:30am
|
Dublin,
Ireland Dublin (DUB)
|
Your flight is confirmed. The airline will assign seats
at check-in.
Change planes. Time
between flights: 3hr 20min
Aer Lingus 125 Economy
| Airbus Industrie A330
(330) | 8hr 25min | 3666 miles
Seats: 38D, 38E, 38F, 38G
Your flight is confirmed. Seats are confirmed.
We will probably miss the 3:30 Van Galder
bus from terminal 5 (that bus is also scheduled to leave from the bus/shuttle
center at door 4 at 4:00). The next Van Galder
bus from terminal 5 is at 5:00. The 3:30 bus will arrive at the P&R
lot at 6:50, the 5:00 bus will arrive at 8:20.
Oct 14
The shuttle to Edinburgh
Airport worked as
promised, and we were there in plenty of time to check in. After we
arrived in Dublin I thought that 3 hrs 20 mins between flights would be plenty of time but after
passport control, Ireland
security scanning, US Security scanning, and travel from terminal 2 to terminal
1 we barely had time for lunch in the terminal before our scheduled
boarding. The flight was long and boring, as usual, as was the 5:00 Van Galder bus to the Dutch Mill lot. We found the car
where Mike and Michael had left it, loaded the
luggage, dropped Brian and Barbara off, and finally got home.