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

[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.