May 28 Dublin

With a big day ahead of us and the prospect of heavy traffic and rain heading into London after the holiday weekend we set the alarm for 7 am and having cleaned as much of the motorhome as we could the night before we were on the road before 8 am. We found our way back to the A1 without a hitch. The A1 shortly became the M1 which in places is up to 6 lanes wide. We stopped for the compulsory coffee break and to chuck a bit of diesel into the tank for the last time before making our final approach into London. Fortunately it wasn't raining yet and we found our way onto the M25 orbital motorway and then under a bit of pressure found our exit into Rainham. If we had missed that we would have ended up going over the Dartmoor toll bridge and God knows what would have happened after that.
As it was we ended up back at West's Motorhome Rentals at about 9am. We did a last minute clean of the floors and packed our suitcases before happily handing over the keys and waiting while they did their final inspection. Once that was completed we summoned up yet another Uber to take us to London City Airport which is located in London City not far from Greenwich. It is a brilliant little airport built on reclaimed land from the old dockland area. It was raining by now but we happily settled into a cafe at the airport to wait until we could check in.
Our flight with British Airways was only 1 hour 20 minutes to Dublin but we also gained an hour. Theo and Dawn were waiting for us in the bar at the airport. Our transfer to the city arrived. The driver was called Carl and he had that lovely Irish glint in his eyes and the sense of humour to go with it. We struck it off from the get go once we agreed not to talk rugby. Carl took us to the apartment rental office to check in and pick up keys and then on to our apartment. The apartment was in a great location overlooking the river Liffey and was well set up for 2 couples but was in need of a bit of TLC. However it would do us just fine.
After getting unpacked we wandered down the road to the Brewbar for drinks and dinner.Читать далее