Amazingly, all went well on the flight … I was in Business class so they give you rather nice food and the lay flat seat helped me to sleep about 5 hours on this overnight flight. I met Larry and Claudia after baggage, what a reunion! It was such a relief to see them after all the drama of my cancelled flight. We got a taxi to the Airbnb, and housekeeper was still there so he let us in, gave us keys etc. Turns out the locks are really funky and require a lot of jiggling, so the nice man who runs the tiny store on the first floor (www.crestandarms.com, which offers all sort of magnets with names on them) helped us and even lent us his keys so Larry could make a copy of the outer door key that worked.
Once we got in (thank good news for the elevator to the fourth floor) we unloaded a bit, and then went out to SPAR to get some breakfast items, and walked on Dame Street a bit. Getting hungry by mid-afternoon, we stopped for a nice bowl of soups and soda bread at a place called Porterhouse. We then walked over to the old Post Office, where the bullet holes are still visible in the columns where the Irish nationalists were executed by police during the Easter Rising. We got some postcard stamps in the actual huge old-fashioned post office and the clerk gave me loads of change for the bus. We took the #140 to St. Patrick’s Catherdral, intending to get there for Evensong, but we were Tom late and they has closed the doors. We walked around the lovely gardens outside. Three times this afternoon it started to pour rain for a few minutes and then stopped. Good thing we all brought our small umbrellas. So far my knee is holding up well.
Back to the Airbnb to relax a bit and chat, unpack, and further familiarize ourselves with the plan for tomorrow. We the. Went to the small Italian restaurant downstairs, called Toscana, and split a pizza and nice salad, had our first Guinness of the trip. Back upstairs, we had made it awake to 8:00pm, the big objectives, and got ready for bed and a hoped-for good night’s sleep. 13,000 steps today which is a lot!
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