Ireland Day 5

Saturday, 27 July 2024

It was probably a mistake to visit Belfast then so quickly follow it up with a night in Dublin - two cities in a row when I'm not into cities at the best of times.

Nevertheless we started our final day in Ireland with a walking tour around the city centre, interrupted briefly while I managed to fix the previous night's problem of Jon's mismatched passport details.  For some reason I thought Dublin would be nice, but on a grey Sunday morning it wasn't - it was pretty average - rubbish everywhere, a bit stinky and just not that great.  It was probably a lot better the night before after a few drinks, or maybe on a sunny day. Here are some photos of the nicer bits:

After our walking tour we rushed back to our nondescript but typical Dublin semi  to pack and check out. Our house was at the end of this street - looking like all the other houses in the street...

Then as we still had a couple of hours before needing to get to the airport we took a driving and walking tour out to Howth - a bit of land sticking out near Dublin.  Howth had some nice walking trails with views of the sea 

Then it was on to the airport to drop off our car and get us all checked into our last Ryan Air flight of this trip - they've actually been pretty good and delightfully cheap so I'm not complaining except for the need to get there 2 hours before and navigate their complex drop-off processes. 

Arriving in Copenhagen it was straight to the car rental place and ten minutes later we were on the bridge to Sweden. We had 3 hours to drive to our hotel in Vaxsjo which was halfway to our final destination.