September 13th – A LONG TRAVEL DAY

Said goodbye to our firstAirbnb and trucked our luggage down the cobbled streets to catch our bus from Belfast to Dublin – by coach – 2.5 hours and then switched coach lines and headed to Limerick which took another 3.5 hours – or was supposed to take that long. Ended up an hour later because of Friday traffic at both cities!! Pretty crazy.

Arrived safely – after almost losing my patience with a lady in front of me who decided to put her seat back so far I couldn’t move. Despite my asking her to fix it up a bit, twice, she chose not To! In the end, I just reminded myself I was on vacation in Ireland and moved on to watching the amazing scenery out the window. All is good!

Our host, Nora, at our new airbnb is amazing and the spot is in an old Victorian house. We are up three stories. We followed her recommendations and ate at a great restaurant with seafood chowder and then headed to a pub with Irish music and had a Baileys coffee. Kathy had an Irish coffee and the guys had rum. Dad and I each tried Guinness at the restaurant. I enjoyed it but I felt so full after!! Dad, not so much loving it, but glad he tried! Trekked back to our room and dropped into bed!!

Long, long day but such fun!

Great restaurant!
First Guinness!
Limerick bridge over Shanon River
Airbnb in Limerick
Belfast city centre
Neat cabs!

Published by Karenandlloyd

Lloyd and I are not “world travellers” but we are about to embark on an adventurous trip to Ireland with our good friends, Eldon and Kathy (who, by the way) are world travellers. We have been planning the details of this trip for over one year and it is now right around the corner. Trying to keep our packing to a minimum as we are lugging our stuff around on public transportation- a challenge for me - minimal packing I mean!! Second challenge - getting on that plane - as many of you know - I don’t love flying but fortunately Lloyd lets me dig my fingers into his arm as long as I need to! This is a fairly long flight - he may regret his generosity!! So.... we are off around the Isle on September 9th for 16 days!! I hope you all enjoy following our travels with us. It is my hope to post each day with a picture or two added. Take a trip with us!!!

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