Monday, May 6, 2024, Day 63

Our last breakfast on the ship! We disembark at 9:30AM after saying some last goodbyes to shipmates. Our ride shows up right on time and drives us to Heathrow Airport. We check in and go through security and sit for a shared pizza and wine. Suddenly we find out our plane is boarding and we don’t even know the Gate number yet!

So we scramble and find the plane and board without any issues and all is well. We take off on time and it is a short flight to Dublin, Ireland. We clear customs quickly and get our bags. Then it is off to the taxi rank where a taxi van pulls right up and we load all of our 6 bags (4 check in bags and 2 carry ons). It takes about a half hour and we are at our hotel in downtown Dublin. We get checked into our small room but it is only for one night and we head off in search of fun things to entertain our cameras with!

Pub after pub after pub after pub after pub we walk by. I’m sure you get the idea. But we are in a very old historic city and it is beautiful! We make our way to the river for some more camera entertainment and we are not disappointed.

We have traveled and walked quite the distances today and are getting tired. We come across a lady with a megaphone that turns out to be a Palestinian protester. We cross the street so we won’t have to walk by her. We walk back towards our hotel and stop at the “Trinity Venue Bar” and order hard cider for Elee and a Smithwick’s Irish Ale for myself. Then we order seafood chowder and beef stew for dinner and all is good.

We chat amicably with some locals and a fun time is had by all. The we finally walk back to our hotel to retire for the evening. We have an early alarm set for the morning for our flight home!

Goodnight!