White Sands Hotel Portmarnock
Coast Road Portmarnock, County Dublin, Ireland
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It's Always an Adventure Traveling Overseas..
... had individual screens, meaning we could watch what we wanted. While we were searching through the movies/shows/games, available to us, an announcement came on saying there will be a two-hourish DELAY because President Barack Obama was arriving into the airport. ..Yep. I have the worst luck ever. We couldn't get off the plane, instead we just sat there. Annie (my seatmate) was kind enough to lend me her phone so I could call ...
A Much Awaited Arrival
... But we powered thruogh and once arriving at the airport we purchased bus tickets and made it safely to our hotel. The hotel is nice and has free WiFi and also a few computers in the lounge that allow students to have internet access. It was probably about 2pm when we were settled into the hotel. Some took advantage fo the afternoon to ...
Dublin!
... went back to Christ Church Cathedral; I needed
to see how it compared. (It funny that they built two such
magnificent churches so close together - about a 10 minute walk.)
Unfortunately, it had already closed for the day. But I did take more
pictures of the exterior. I'll have to go in next time I'm in Dublin,
some year.
By this time, we were getting
pretty tired from all the walking (the gloomy weather didn't help),
so we decided to pick up ...
It's Always When I Think I Know Where I Am Going
... know that I had gotten on the wrong train and would be a little bit late, I figured I could still be there within 45 minutes but that would be a little after school had started. He told me that was fine and, as per usual, he was very understanding. So when the next train came heading back the way I had came I got on it expecting to be taken back into town.
It's never that simple.
The train I got on was actually going to Docklands and I had to ...
My First Day
I boarded the plane and was lucky enough to have an aisle seat, which is certainly convenient for such a long flight. I told myself I was going to try to sleep, despite all the options on the TV. Seriously there were like 18 movies and at least a dozen TV shows and those were just the options I was interested in. There were even more but I didn't look through them all. I did watch a couple music videos and listen to some Beethoven hoping it would put me ...
This hotel was formerly known as: White Sands



