Liffey Valley House Hotel Leixlip

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... As you know, Max and I are still in Dublin - both employed now thank goodness. Both of our jobs are less than ideal, but we are bringing in money, which I think is more than can be said for a lot of other people in Ireland at the moment! Max is working at the local Spar (which is like a corner deli, but a franchised affair) where he works either morning or evening shifts and sometimes just few hours in the middle. Luckily it is only a ...

... rest of the day. Our departure from Cork was quiet and uneventful. As we sail to our next destination, tonight we have our third and final formal night. There was a farewell cocktail party with drinks and canapés in the atrium levels 5, 6 and 7. Everyone looked so nice in their evening gowns and suits. Photographers were there for taking formal pictures. There was a piano player playing a vast selection of songs...and waiters walking ...

... eventually cancelled it when she got to the departure lounge! It was just one of these unavoidable weather related things, and most flights to the UK were cancelled by that point. She was flying with Ryanair, and they gave her a note to say she could re-book on-line, or queue and re-book at the airport desks. As you can imagine, the computers were full, and the queue at the desk was horrendous - it was already about 9pm, so she called me and I just told ...

... minute change over........would we make it? Would our bags make it? Everyone said they had this change over down to fine art - and they do. We landed at the time our boarding was due to start, got aboard the bus (which usually spells disaster) and took the very short trip to the terminal - we headed towards transfers to find that we needed to go through a security check first....we got through, headed up the stairs and joined the boarding queue ...

... as we've no change. His persistence lasts a minute then abates when he realizes he's met a Scotsman. The chaos I expected upon leaving the terminal certainly takes hold as we begin our journey into the city. The sheer volume of traffic is matched only by the volume of incessant horn blasts from each vehicle as we all compete for every inch of tarmac. Our taxi driver is quiet, his English is poor and our Hindu non existent so, we sit and silently gaze at our new ...

... more interesting as we get going here, I promise... Friday morning I headed out of Dublin, on my way west. Next stop - Galway. PS, no pictures to post at the moment as a)I didn't take very many as it was very wet and b)my shiny new toy that was supposed to hold all my pictures from the trip has seemingly died. after two days. I am refusing to deal with this fact and hope that it magically awakes and gives me back my pictures.... regardless. No pictures for now.

... own, with Dave and Suz actually. They were going on a one day trip. If you put two and two together you could summise that Dave's life in Ireland is just one big road-trip bonanza. When Renee left, I went on my second day of being a tourists. I went to the Guinness Storehouse (the factory/tour) which was awesome. It was very educational and you could taste the beer as it tasted at different stages through the brewing process. That night I met my new host, Calum. Yes it is ...

Top o' the morning to you (response: ... and the rest of the day to you as well). First off, lest you all think I might have been hitting the Irish whiskey too much with the incorrectly spelled and punctuated (not that I always do that anyway) words in my last post, it wasn't due to too much whiskey but to the rather odd machine in Northern Ireland which was more like a telephone and less like a computer (keyboard wise). Having said that, now on to the trip report ...

... lobby was beautiful, and there was a pool, whirlpool, restaurant, and bar inside. We had a huge breakfast buffet every morning. It was so great. We saw Glendalough, which is the ruins of a monastery and cemetery in between two valleys. The bluffs in Ireland look different from the ones in Minnesota. There are more green cliffs and mounds of green grass in the hills. We walked through the valleys and came to a lake. It was sooo beautiful! Everything was ...