If you look at it sideways, it almost makes sense

[ailbhe]

I was booking a trip to Ireland to (a) see my mother, and (b) avoid the central heating installers, and I looked up all the info available from http://www.sailrail.co.uk/ for train and ferry fares and noted that they have a through trip to Galway, from Reading, for 78UKP return.

That's pretty good going. Except that the ticket doesn't allow me to stop overnight in Holyhead or Dublin, and it's a 12-hour journey.

And the return trip starts at 11 am in Galway and includes a 3-hour stopover in Newcastle. At 2 am.

Luckily, it's cheaper to buy a ticket from Reading to Dublin, and then a seperate ticket form Dublin to Galway, anyway. So now the actual travel is sorted out, I need to see who I'll visit while in Dublin. Offers?

(Oh - dates - I'll be in Dublin the nights of the 17th and 25th).

Comments

[natural20.livejournal.com]

17th & 25th of October?

[ailbhe]

Yup! Linnea and me. Poor ole Rob has to stay behind and work off his notice.

[natural20.livejournal.com]

I'm not around the 17th, possibly the 25th, depending on a bunch of stuff I can't verify right now, but it would be cool to see the two of you.

See what happens I suppose and I'll quite possibly know more closer to the time.

[sshi.livejournal.com]

I just talked to Ailbhe on the phone and she asked me to rely the message that they couldn't get the early ferry and the train won't make it into Dublin until after 6pm, so won't be able to meet people this time around, unfortunately.
(repeat of comment to Radegund, so ou both get the comment notification!)

[natural20.livejournal.com]

:(

Thanks for passing on the info. It will have to be a next time then.

[sshi.livejournal.com]

I'll be around both days, pretty much all day apart from a couple of hours early evening on the 17th, so whatever way of planning things that's the most reasonable for you guys, it would be cool to see you two!

[helenprev.livejournal.com]

I'm glad your trip is planned! :-)

[k425.livejournal.com]

I don't know who you should visit, but I'm glad you're getting away for a bit!

[radegund.livejournal.com]

My e-mail's acting up, but just to confirm: those dates suit fine.

[ailbhe]

BOTH of them? Really? Wow!

[radegund.livejournal.com]

Sure, if you want. It's entirely up to you :-)

(I'm not sure if we could pick you up from the station on the return trip, is the only thing. But you could come into town and find a slow cup of tea somewhere, and I'd meet you as soon as I could leave work.)

[ailbhe]

Glitz says Anthology in Meeting House square is worth a look.

[sshi.livejournal.com]

I just talked to Ailbhe on the phone and she asked me to rely the message that they couldn't get the early ferry and the train won't make it into Dublin until after 6pm, so won't be able to meet people this time around, unfortunately.

[mrs-warwick.livejournal.com]

It's good that you don't have an overnight stop in Holyhead, especially in October. I was shocked by what I saw when we went home in September. It looks more depressed than ever, and not somewhere I would want to be out and about after dark.

[ailbhe]

I wouldn't be out and about, though. I'd be in with Linnea somewhere. However, I'm stopping overnight in Dublin instead, which, while less convenient, is more fun.