Wednesday, July 2. Dublin
We breakfasted in La Terrassa for the first time in the cruise and disembarked at 9:30 am. We exited the Port area and then hailed an Uber but we obviously had found the newest recruit on the block and we could see on the Uber app that he gradually became further and further away from us. So eventually we cancelled him and did indeed obtain an Uber to take us back to the Gresham Hotel where we had stayed coming out to the cruise.
We left our luggage at the hotel and then sat in the lounge reading for half an hour or so before going out for a walk until 2:30 pm. We went to Arnotts and looked around there for a summer dress for Chris and she eventually bought one, David being very patient. Later on we went into Marks & Spencer’s and bought another dress for a fraction of the price which was in the sales
Back at the hotel we were assigned room 557 which again had a very dismal outlook was otherwise satisfactory. We had a picnic lunch in the room and were going to go out for another hours walk but a shower stopped us, so we just went down to the lounge and read there.
Then we had a short walk outside as the sun had reappeared. We had a snack in the room and then set out at 6:30 pm for the Gaiety Theatre where we had tickets for Riverdance. This was a real electric performance even though I could not focus too well on a lot of it but I managed with a combination of my special glasses and the binoculars
Back in the room we had a rum and Coke and another snack.
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And Riverdance in the evening
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Thursday, July 3 Dublin to Moraira.
A leisurely breakfast at 9:30am in the better restaurant of the Gresham: we had a window table looking out onto O’Connell Street. We then packed up but went down to the lounge with a nice views on O’Connell Street for almost an hour before checking out and going for a 3 plus hour walk round Dublin
We walked along the Liffey, very pleasant . We came to the bridge just past the castle then we crossed the river and found ourselves at Saint.Audiens Church which had a visitor centre we went into this, found it was free and then spent a very pleasant informative hour there mainly watching a very very good film on Dublin through the ages: pity I will not remember that much about it!
When we came out of this, it rained a little but we went in to the castle and walked around the inner courtyards there and then back into the castle gardens where we had a cold drink and a chocolate cake on a wet table but the chairs were dry.
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Then back to the hotel where we read for another half hour before taking an Uber, which arrived within 10 seconds, out to the airport. There we had to do a machine check-in, with help, of our suitcases. Our 18.50 flight did not take off until past 19.30 so with the hours difference between the two countries we landed in Valencia Around 23.30pm. And not home until gone 1 am and then unpacked the suitcases but not the piles of clothes before falling into bed at 2 am.
A really good trip. Cheap, with the €3000 we have been given by Silverseas, and now we have just nine days at home before we take off for the Rwanda Gorillas and the Rovos rail train across Africa.