We are, again, waiting at an airport - Heathrow this time - hopefully we will make it home today! They put us up at an airport hotel last night, which was really nice (two rooms even) and gave us a voucher for dinner and breakfast. The breakfast this morning was a decent buffet but the dinner buffet last night was the worst I've ever seen - just a bizarre mix and very few choices: raw peppers, lettuce drowning in ranch dressing, boiled white rice, a curry and a tikki dish, both of which didn't look very appetizing, a awful tasting lasagna, little grilled pieces of corn on the cob (which I usually love but this also didn't taste good), small fried tortillas and french fries.
Speaking of food - we have found donner kebabs to be the most universal. It's what we think of as gyros - with the vertical compressed lamb meat that they shave off. It was in every place we went and we ate it several times. The best was at this little place in Holyhead. Still, I am looking forward to Dave's delicious cooking!
Once again signing off (and the delay gave me time to go through and post pictures from the rest of the trip)
Thursday, July 2, 2015
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Planes, trains and automobiles
Waiting at the airport so I thought I'd make one more observation. If the kids learned nothing else, they learned about taking various modes of transportation. Except for a couple of flights and the school bus, the only thing they've ever really ridden in is an automobile. But over the course of this trip, we've had multiple short and long plane rides; ridden subway, local, long distance and overnight trains; taken cross-country, city and tour buses; and taken a cab and a ferry.
And speaking of transportation, our Dublin to London flight is 30 minutes delayed so I hope we won't have a problem making our big flight! On the other hand, they are already predicting that that flight will come in early to Phoenix. Time to board so signing off.
And speaking of transportation, our Dublin to London flight is 30 minutes delayed so I hope we won't have a problem making our big flight! On the other hand, they are already predicting that that flight will come in early to Phoenix. Time to board so signing off.
So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Goodnight - OR- We're Coming to America
It's 8am here and we are about to head towards the airport for our journey home. We had a very mellow day in Dublin yesterday - all of us a little tired and ready to be home, I think. We went on the walking tour but other then that pretty much hung out in the hotel room.
Still behind on my pictures - we took so many in London - hope to have those up soon. It's been a wonderful trip and I think the kids have gotten a lot out of it. If I could do one thing different it would be to bring a camera for each of us. Yes, that would me even MORE pictures to go through but it was the one point of contention through out the trip. Who ever had the camera would inevitably not take the picture of what or the way the others wanted. We all see things differently and have a different image we want to remember. And with digital picture taking essentially costing nothing other then the time to weed through thousands of pictures, it would have been worth it to have a couple of extra camera.
As it was we took 6300 pictures (as you see, I've only posted a small percentage), can you imagine what that would have cost in film and processing! For that and other reasons, this trip wouldn't have been possible without modern technology. I had maps of each of the cities we visited on my iPad and with the GPS abilities, we found our way on many occasions. When we road the bus, I could follow our progress on the iPad and see each bus stop so that I knew when the next one was ours in time to push the "stop" button. I also had travel books on the iPad with walking tours and other guides. I was able to go onto Google maps ahead of time and, using the street view, virtually walk from the train station to an accommodation so that when we arrived I knew exactly where to go. Each night I was on the Internet planning the next day - what was open and when, using Google maps to figure out walking directions or what public transport to take.
It truly is a wonderful world in so many ways.
Still behind on my pictures - we took so many in London - hope to have those up soon. It's been a wonderful trip and I think the kids have gotten a lot out of it. If I could do one thing different it would be to bring a camera for each of us. Yes, that would me even MORE pictures to go through but it was the one point of contention through out the trip. Who ever had the camera would inevitably not take the picture of what or the way the others wanted. We all see things differently and have a different image we want to remember. And with digital picture taking essentially costing nothing other then the time to weed through thousands of pictures, it would have been worth it to have a couple of extra camera.
As it was we took 6300 pictures (as you see, I've only posted a small percentage), can you imagine what that would have cost in film and processing! For that and other reasons, this trip wouldn't have been possible without modern technology. I had maps of each of the cities we visited on my iPad and with the GPS abilities, we found our way on many occasions. When we road the bus, I could follow our progress on the iPad and see each bus stop so that I knew when the next one was ours in time to push the "stop" button. I also had travel books on the iPad with walking tours and other guides. I was able to go onto Google maps ahead of time and, using the street view, virtually walk from the train station to an accommodation so that when we arrived I knew exactly where to go. Each night I was on the Internet planning the next day - what was open and when, using Google maps to figure out walking directions or what public transport to take.
It truly is a wonderful world in so many ways.
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