Blogs from Ireland, Europe - page 374

Took Joshy on his first ever flight...to Dublin! Everything went well until later on ( more about that in a minute !). We flew with Ryanair from Manchester and for the three of us it cost 6 pence...and that included all airport taxes and charges. Nobody believes us that it cost us 2 pence each return, but it was an offer Ryanair were doing a month ago by giving away 1 million free flights over a five day period. Apparantly, after we have checked in with them, the 6 pence gets refunded back onto our credit card, thus making the flight free! During the offer, we booked flights for the rest of the family to and from Dublin and we're going later this year in October for our wedding anniversary for a weekend away. Anyway, ... read more

The purpose of this blog is to record the progress made during my trip over the next few months. I will make my way down to Mache, Peru to assist in the development of an irrigation project. Hopefully I will be able to doa bit of travel here and there as well. I'm leaving for Dublin airport in a few minutes, so I'll leave it to further posts to go into detail. For the record, the weather right now is really terrible. This will be a rarely uttered phrase in the future, I hope! The temperature in New York is 30+ degrees and sunny. As time is short, here's to fun times ahead!... read more

So I'm finally in Dublin, Ireland after an extremely long and confusing and frequently terrifying journey from LAX. In Atlanta, the flight was delayed from 8:30 (the original departure time) until 10 pm. I couldn't believe it! And all because one woman couldn't make the flight...though she was sobbing. So they had to take all of the luggage off, and reload it...they forgot to put one of the things with all the luggage on, so I'm in Dublin, smelling to high heaven with no luggage (i.e. no clothes, toiletries, etc.) until tomorrow, and I have to wait until 2pm (15:00 here) until I can check into my hostel, right across the street. C'est la vie, oui? However, it's beautiful, and I'm finally here! In the flight I sat next to a really interesting guy who immediately ... read more

Ange and I had decided we had been working too hard - so it was time for a few days off and an opportunity to see another part of the northern hemisphere. With five days off we decided to take the opportunity to duck over to Ireland to catch up with Ange's friend Lawrie - a fellow Tasmanian now based in Dublin - and to do a bit of sightseeing around Dublin and the southwest of Ireland. Once again we began our day with an early 5.30am start for the journey out to Stanstead airport and onto Dublin. It still surprises me the short distances between countries here. The flight is only an hour from London to Dublin - crazy!!! Well after a fairly uneventful flight, we arrived in Dublin to what could only be described ... read more