Month: November 2010

I’ll wrap up our time in London into the one post.

Firstly – we didn’t do as much as we have in other places, we got very tired and so we took things slower, which in some ways was better than how we’ve seen other places. A lot of time was spent just walking around and enjoying the city. On our drive to London, we made a list of things we wanted to do, so over dinner Friday night, we worked out how we could tackle them in a fairly short period of time (3 days). The list went something along these lines… Continue reading “The London Experience”

We’re at Heathrow about to board our A380 to Singapore (flight EK002). We managed to score emergency row seats so should be a bit more comfortable.

Sad to leave Europe but happy to be on our way home with a few days R&R in Singapore.

Edit: flight to Dubai stop-over complete. Pretty easy really, currently 01:30 local time. The A380 is very quiet in the cabin, very impressed. The crew prefer them to anything else too. Forgot just how cool the Dubai airport is…

30mins before 7hr flight to Singapore (groan). Got more exit row seats though so that’s good. Boeing 777 this time.

Edit 2: made it to Singapore safely. Going to have a brief nap after being up for over 24hrs then have a look around.

Where were we…

So last time we blogged, we were in Dublin for our last night. The next day, off to the ferry we went and boarded a fast ferry to cross the sea into Wales (Holyhead to be exact). Traveling by ferry is pretty damn good we’ve decided. It’s very smooth, it’s very quick (1h45 to get from Dublin to Holyhead), only have to be there 15mins early prior to leaving if you’re traveling by foot and no security check or anything stupid like that. And it’s cheap – 70€ for both of us! Plus it’s huge and very under-used, so you can really spread out or walk around, go out on the observation deck, grab a proper breakfast like we did… liked it.
Continue reading “Ireland, Wales & England in a day”

This morning we decided that the Guinness Storehouse will be the order of the day… We’ve heard good things from people who’ve done it, so we wanted to see it for ourselves.
Continue reading “Dublin, Ireland”

We’ve just had what can only be described as Irish hospitality on steroids.

At the last minute, we got in touch with Bernie, Kazza’s mum who lives in the midlands of Ireland, and asked if we could catch up with her or even maybe stay with her and husband Brendan. They were only too eager and after picking up our rental car from Dublin Airport, we drove (albeit the wrong way initially) to their house in what can only be described as the most idyllic Irish location you’ll see.
Continue reading “Anything better than staying with friends? Welcome to Ireland!”