Today was a LONG day for us.  We woke up early, well I did, around 5am.  I couldn’t fall back asleep so I got ready to leave and waited for everyone else to wake up, which wasn’t until 8am!  Anyway, we left around 9am and decided to eat breakfast on the road.  We stopped at […]

Late Morning Start in Belfast After sleeping in this morning, we didn’t get a start on our day until around 10am.  We were hungry, and I needed some coffee so we walked to a local coffee shop for breakfast.  I ordered a macchiato…it was not at all what I expected. We had to order a […]

We got an early start this morning.  We had prepaid for the car parking and on Wednesday we entered an hour early, as mentioned in previous post, so we needed to check out an hour earlier so we could avoid any extra fees.  This meant we had to be packed, ready, and leaving the car […]

Wow!  We slept for almost 12 hours last night!  I guess we were sleeping for two nights though? Traditional Irish Breakfast in Dublin Anyway, we got our day started around 10am at a local restaurant for breakfast.  We went for the traditional Irish breakfast platters.  These include bacon (more like American ham), sausage (not our […]

Well best laid plans…what’s the saying?  Often go awry.  Getting the kids, and ourselves for that matter, to go to sleep proved to be very difficult.  I am talking about the plane flight. Flight from Boston to Dublin Dinner was served at 7:45pm, then they picked up trash, and then served coffee/tea.  So, the lights […]