Tracking our people can be fun but it always takes a while to adjust to the constant stresses of this type of travel. We have made it just a little more stressful this time as tomorrow we will split up to do our own things for the next week and a half.
After that almost endless flight with just a few hours pit stop in Abu Dhabi, we were glad to emerge into an almost empty but impressive Dublin airport. Then, as is our fashion, it was into the local transport system to get to our guest house booking close to Blackrock in the southern coastal suburbs. After finding that the bus we were planning to take had been taken off line last year we found any number of helpful locals who could point us at least in the general direction. No one had heard of the “suburb” we were seeking but between the driver, another bus company person on the bus and an interested bystander we alighted at a Blackrock shopping complex soon enough. A short taxi drop later and we were in the guest house and intently getting the run down from Dee our hostess.
Our first impressions of this part of Dublin are that it is a neat and tidy area, just a bit “twee” in that English, Brittany, German, Scottish village sense with plenty of small local shops and pubs, a very nice park that backs onto our place and within which any number of other locals were walking dogs, playing with kids or enjoying tennis at a great tennis complex.
We took the obligatory late afternoon walk around our new neighbourhood before taking one of our hostess eating recommendations at the “Wishing Well” pub.
Wednesday will be settling day as we start to explore Dublin whilst finding our time adjusted legs and the ways to get to the Heuston railway station where Randall needs to be early Thursday morning for his trip to Killarney and also the main bus station near Customs House in the centre of Dublin where Yvonne needs to be Friday for her weekend painting school at Killaloe.
For now it is also all about adjusting to this constantly moving lifestyle whilst exploring the history, culture and people of fascinating Ireland.
And the weather? A cool 12 degrees but fine mid afternoon. There were plenty of people enjoying the Sandymount beach towards Dun Laughaire. Not too many in the water though.
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