The first time I leave my seat in hours, and someone nicks it. And it’s a soggy bint to boot. I wandered away from my makeshift crash zone to check the screens so I knew roughly where I was checking in (row 8, as it happens), and when I got back — and I only […]
I’ve found a comfy(ish) chair upstairs in the check-in hall, I’m surrounded by a few foreigners on standby for random destinations, and it’s sleepy time! I have to say that finding a page all about crashing overnight in Dublin airport just made it even more clear to me two things: first, that the Internet is […]
My plan was always — always — to get everyone to the airport in ample time to sit down, chill out, grab some munch/drinks, check-in and then go get their flights. And then I would find a comfy chair somewhere and crash like no-one’s crashed before. The reason for this is that while everyone else […]
A fantastic meal made all the more amusing by little faux pas here and there – well, only one to be honest. In the supermarket yesterday, Sabrina asked for help finding her 'pie crust' for the pumpkin pie dessert (although all she asked for was 'pie crust' without the pumpkin pie caveat). Now, in Scotland, […]
Excellent breakfast in the B&B (not quite up to Ulster Fry standards, but pretty stomping nonetheless), then headed out to being sorting stuff out for the day. Joe and Sabrina were sorting out the food, Katherine and Clare were taking the kids to The Cage — some random indoor playpark for kids with bouncy stuff, […]
Tynan’s. Drinkies. Abrakebabra. Hotel. Doner. Bed.
Kilkenny in the dark is not fun to navigate round, especially with two really dodgy looking maps! We were rescued by Katherine, Sabrina’s friend in Kilkenny who was putting up with us our contact, guide, assistant, fixer, and general sorter-out of stuff . She took us to meet her partner Joe, who was hosting the […]
Sabrina took Ellie up this random tower/chimney thing beside the hotel, which equally randomly had a Santa at the top. This meant the rest of us could sit back with some drinkies without a small girl running around us and asking for beer :) Before heading off, we nipped into a next-door Spar, grabbed some […]
It was time to go pick up Clare and her daughter Ellie from the airport. Somehow, I had the route there and back totally nailed, and Sabrina and I sat about in one of the airport bars drinking coffee and talking about random things appearing on Sky News. Clare is not a good flyer apparently, […]