Sas Dublin

... gardens. The weather was wet and gloomy but in many ways this added to the beauty of the place. We made good progress towards Dublin but then met a huge traffic queue for the tollway for the M1. We crawled along for over 70 mins till we paid our toll and ...

... nbsp; We took a ferry across Strangford Lough with beautiful villages on each side.  We were greeted by rain in Dublin but are staying at the beautiful SAS Radissson St. Helen's which use to be a stately castle mansion and the grounds and gardens are ...

We slept in this morning and were surprised to find the ceiling behaving badly by leaking on me as I attempted to iron a shirt. Kip made a call down to the front desk and soon we were moving into a different room.  (I guess that staying for more ...

... , there castle grounds were closed.  To absolutely no one’s surprise, we got almost immediately and miserably lost in Dublin.  Thanks Google-goof!  We finally found our hotel (the Radisson) at 7:15 p.m.  We were pooped and ...

... flight, since it was my orignial flight on American. But of course that would be too easy. It was sent on SAS, so it wasn't going to get to Dublin until 6pm. The initial plan was for Shalena and I to leave Dublin and start driving to the west coast. But ...

... only 120eur if moving From Ireland so must be some tax thing) and then realised its cheaper for both of us to fly home with SAS and the 20kg baggage allce and 5eur excess charge (as opposed to cheaper Ryanair but they only have 15kg luggage allce and 8eur ...

... pub.  The beer went down quite nice and i proceeded to walk around the city trying to find a place like the George in Dublin.  Do you think i could find one ?  The people at the bar didnt even talk to ya.  So i used a little ...

... fill in a form and put in a white box and go home, finally got in at 7pm, 25.5 hours after I left the house in Dublin. Call SAS baggage but all lines closed (natch).  So next day I call them (aka 18hours after I filled in missing baggage form) and the ...

Dublin to Stockholm, via London. Now Sweden is cold! business one day and sight seeing the next. We took the train from the airport and walked to the palace, along the waterfront and then through town to the train station. We came upon ice skating in the ...

... it was most satisfactory. After lunch we thought we'd better get local and have a siesta (plus we only had 4 hours sleep in Dublin). That evening went on a massive walk for 1˝ hours around old town 'Alfama' and got down the docks to Jardim de ...

... our way up the elevator to the Gravity Bar on the 7th floor which is a circular glass walled room with incredible views of Dublin as you sip your complimentary pint of Guinness.  The blue sky and white clouds enhanced the city views.  Earlier we ...

... your glass made from ice in your room for use later makes subsequent drinks cheaper. Drink not as expensive as we'd heard - no dearer than Dublin really.  Then there was check in tour - saw some of the rest of the hotel being built (will be finished in 3 ...

... from Scotland, Amar & Yi from London via Kenya & China, Kerrie & Greta from Australia, Aidan & Grace from Dublin & Catherine & Mark from Clarinbridge via Oranmore !! We had to travel to South America to meet our neighbours. We were ...

... is over, for now. Time to swap Cusco for Tesco, and Whit Sundays for sh*t Mondays. This will also be the last blog, as we don’t think our adventures in Dublin will be quite as newsworthy. Until next time, thanks for reading.   Steve & ...