We took it easy this morning and I finished optimizing our luggage in preparation for our flight on Sunday. I also worked on my website as I am getting father and farther behind in days as my pictures will not upload but I can still type on my blogs which is good! As it is Friday, I thought when planning, that it would be best that we split the drive back to the Dublin Airport overnight. The Dublin Airport is north of Dublin and I did not know what the Dublin traffic would be like during a rush hour on a Friday afternoon. Based on our experience on the bus tour when we arrived back in Dublin on a Thursday evening at rush hour, I had made a pretty good decision – busses get their own lanes and there was a gridlock of cars trying to commute!
Yet again, Google, which we have found does not really distinguish very well between regular roads and ones that a VERY narrow, struck again! On our way out of Cork, on a road that was leading to the motorway, we ended up on a road that was walled on either side and only wide enough for 1 car. Andrew had some choice words to say as we met car after car on the road….until we got until the M7 and then it was clear sailing all the way up to Naas where we were headed. No photos of the drive as it rained most of the way and as we were on a motorway in a small car, unlike higher up in a bus, it is pretty hard to take pictures at times! Instead I focused on my knitting project! Soon we made it to Naas and the hotel – which was beautiful!
We had a nice relaxing evening in the hotel, eating left overs from our stay in Cork. I did some planning on where I could purchase some last minute gluten free goods that I wanted to bring home – either in Naas or by the Dublin Airport and then we decided to call it a night as the internet in the hotel was not being cooperative and I was not in any mood to deal with it! Here is the drive we took today:
