We are off to
Ireland
Today we were up bright and early to catch the metro to the
main train station and then the bus to the airport. We were at the airport within the hour and
checking through to catch our flight on Aer Lingus. We only had one “checked” bag, but then I got
asked to put my carry-on bag into checked as the flight was very full - ok I
said!!!!
Flight was great and we arrived in Dublin with
ease………and what a great place to be!
As we were coming through passport control the lady who let
us into the country was great, saying she had been over to New Zealand in 2011
for the rugby and loved the country.
When Karl said he was here for both work and leisure, she asked what
conference he was attending and when he said it was Metabolomics
- she looked blank, then looked at us and said “send him away” - very
funny!
Right now we were off to get our bags, our big bag was the 2nd
bag out - then my little one arrived about 15 minutes later!!!!! I think next
time I will keep my cabin bag with me in the cabin! We headed straight out to find the man with a
sign saying “Karl Fraser” - he was not hard to see standing at around 6 foot 6
inches! He said “it was a pleasure for us to meet him” and that really set the
scene for our ride to the check in location and then to our apartment. He was very funny - gave us shite about the
All Blacks (and him being from Ireland - really!!!) - we gave it back pretty
well! He swore like a trouper, and generally had good “craic” for the whole
trip, particularly at Karl’s expense about his job and conference. Mum particularly was in fits of
laughter. The drive into town was
fabulous, today there is the “Pride Parade” occurring so there were lots of
people in awesome rainbow colours, carrying flags and generally looking like
they were having a great time. Due to
this however, there were road closures all over the place which did not impress
our taxi driver! I thought it was great -
Anyway got to our apartment which is very cool and will be a
nice place to base for a few days and it is only about 200-300 metres from the
Dublin Conference Centre which is where Karl needs to be! Perfect!
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| Lachlan and mums room - two really comfy single beds..........and check out the picture below - it is this room that has the en-suite bathroom - what is that all about!!!!! Lachlan was very happy with himself............ |
The apartment is great, nice and spacious and modern.........
We settled in, had a coffee and got ourselves sorted -
putting warm clothes on - temperature in Marseille today 32 degrees, temperature
in Ireland 17 degrees - mmmm bit of a change which mum is very pleased about
after a very hot few weeks! We are on
the third floor and have two balconies which is great. The kids headed outside and down to the grass
for a play - about 20 minutes later they were back with Connor being absolutely
drenched - shoes and all after falling into the little man-made stream trying
to follow his brother! It was into the
shower for him, into the washing for his clothes and his shoes hang up to
dry. Lachlan had one wet shoe and he was
then tasked to use the hairdryer to dry it - as Connor only had one pair of
shoes and so needed to use Lachlan’s jandals as his shoes for the day.
Views from one of the balconies.........
