Betws-y-coed to Dublin

An uneventful trip to Liverpool Airport apart from having to be there two hours early since we couldn’t check in on-line as they wanted us to do. Left Bets-y-coed very early as we were nervous about driving into Liverpool. The road out of Wales was a beautiful drive with very little traffic and surprising the road into Liverpool was amazingly quiet and not at all as major as we anticipated. The airport itself was smaller than Christchurch airport and was old and pretty run down. We dropped off the car, checked in and then filled in two hours having a coffee and reading in the book shop. Our flight was smooth and similar to flying JetStar. We arrived in Ireland an hour later which was 2 30. Mick and Angela Griffin were there to meet us and we loved seeing them again. We drove to their lovely home and Angela produced cups of tea and delicious ham sandwiches. At 4 30 we headed out first to an Irish bar for a drink and then to a lovely modern restaurant for dinner. It had been the site of a shoe making factory and the wall of shoe mounds was a feature. Went to bed looking forward to exploring Dublin, and in particular the Guiness Storehouse visit in the morning.Read more