Day 2 - Dubai to Dublin

Both CJ and I managed to grab about 6-7 hours of broken sleep on the flight from Sydney to Dubai so found ourselves in pretty fine form at Dubai where we had only a very short layover. We did, however, find enough time to purchase a couple of scrummy “Ben’s Cookies” that we devoured while we waited to board our flight to Dublin. I am writing this on that flight at the moment. We are continually fed, as one invariably is on international flights, but we are becoming confused regarding time and meals. We have just had our second breakfast for the day and my watch tells me it is 5pm Sydney time with another 4 and a half hours until we touch down in Dublin where it be, I believe, about 12 noon. I have decided I will eat what I am given and trust that it will provide an indication of the time of day…and I will re-set my watch when we arrive.

 



We have now landed and will soon begin the adventure of catching a bus into town and finding our hotel. We are using the airport free wifi and have skyped all the family to say we got here safely.

Our mission is now to stay awake until a reasonable hour...it is 1pm here but feels like 11pm as that is the time at home.

So we were very proud of ourselves to have negotiated our way from the airport via the bus system and were checked in to our hotel in Temple Bar by 2pm. Starting to tire slightly we decided that we needed to “shop til we drop” to avoid fading too early and succumbing to sleep. So we walked and walked and shopped and shopped, managing to find too different “O’Sheas” bars or restaurants without even trying. We had dinner in one of them – a very authentic Irish Stew and a little less authentic Pasta Carbonara – and have now returned to the hotel to shower and tumble into bed. My bet is we’ll be asleep by 8pm which will be 6am Sydney time so hopefully we’ll be in sync by tomorrow when we join our Irish Tour for 6 days.

 

Carly at the first O'Sheas bar we came across.

 

 

Penny outside the O'Shea bar that we ate at.