Ryanair to England, carry on only for 4
Jul. 29th, 2023 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutWe got up, ate some food and finished packing up. I asked T. not to reopen his suitcase, since he struggles to get it completely closed and sometimes does it in a way that could break the close mechanism. It is a weird bag and while it was expensive, I would not care if it broke, but I do not want it to break right before we are due to get on a plane. We did successfully meet RyanAir baggage requirements and did carry on only, altho, to be fair, we did buy priority so we each had a personal item plus a bag for the overhead. Still, I am very pleased.
The taxi I sent T. down to the lobby yesterday to request arrived at 9:15 as requested. The driver was chatty, unlike our first driver, telling a very funny story about getting on a short flight, falling asleep while taxiing to the runway, waking up at the end of the flight while taxiing back and asking his seatmate if they were about to take off. He had napped through the entire flight. Efficient!
I forgot my watch at security. Ooops! But they noticed and had already had to open R.’s bag to have him move the shaving cream to his liquids bag so they remembered me. Yay! Sympathy from other people picking up their bags. Also, yay!
Of course we rushed past what might have been excellent food options to get to the gate, and were there so early it was still turning over the previous flight. There were two options, but both serving things that only really worked well for A., who got a waffle with bacon. I had hashbrowns. It was okay. I heard myself say, out loud, while watching what other people were eating and drinking, “10 am is too early for whiskey”. Dublin has so normalized day drinking that it requires a lot of attention to push back against it.
We were a bit late taking off (no issue with bags — we all got onto the flight without having to gate check anything) but the flight was short. There was a wait for the bus to the rental car village. Unfortunately, there is a rail strike, and so everyone is renting cars. They were waiting for returned cars to be processed to re-rent. *sigh* Well over an hour wait. So we got going around 4:15, when I had hoped to be all the way settled in at the farm by 4. We stopped in Rochdale at John Milne Table Table and had dinner. Burgers for the kids and fish and chips for R. and I.
We had no problem getting our key at Broadgate Farms Foldyard. The space is very lovely! Well stocked kitchen, beds are comfortable. T. is upset at the lack of a pullout sofa in the living room and so he has to share a room with his dad on twin beds. A. and I have the combined bed but it is enormous.
We drove over to see R., my second cousin, and his wife L. They were very welcoming! We had hoped to have dinner with them, but then the rental car fiasco. The rail strike has disrupted visits home by their college aged kids, as well. We chatted for a couple hours, then went back and slept. We still have not managed to get to a market, other than the Lidl trip in Dublin that I got some grapes and pastries for A., the same day I bought the Rolling Donut donuts. T. also visited Rolling Donut and enjoyed it. But all that food has been consumed, altho S. gave us some leftovers to take home. I had the pineapple from those leftovers as part of my breakfast today, and T. snacked on the carrots and those are the grapes that we still have.
The taxi I sent T. down to the lobby yesterday to request arrived at 9:15 as requested. The driver was chatty, unlike our first driver, telling a very funny story about getting on a short flight, falling asleep while taxiing to the runway, waking up at the end of the flight while taxiing back and asking his seatmate if they were about to take off. He had napped through the entire flight. Efficient!
I forgot my watch at security. Ooops! But they noticed and had already had to open R.’s bag to have him move the shaving cream to his liquids bag so they remembered me. Yay! Sympathy from other people picking up their bags. Also, yay!
Of course we rushed past what might have been excellent food options to get to the gate, and were there so early it was still turning over the previous flight. There were two options, but both serving things that only really worked well for A., who got a waffle with bacon. I had hashbrowns. It was okay. I heard myself say, out loud, while watching what other people were eating and drinking, “10 am is too early for whiskey”. Dublin has so normalized day drinking that it requires a lot of attention to push back against it.
We were a bit late taking off (no issue with bags — we all got onto the flight without having to gate check anything) but the flight was short. There was a wait for the bus to the rental car village. Unfortunately, there is a rail strike, and so everyone is renting cars. They were waiting for returned cars to be processed to re-rent. *sigh* Well over an hour wait. So we got going around 4:15, when I had hoped to be all the way settled in at the farm by 4. We stopped in Rochdale at John Milne Table Table and had dinner. Burgers for the kids and fish and chips for R. and I.
We had no problem getting our key at Broadgate Farms Foldyard. The space is very lovely! Well stocked kitchen, beds are comfortable. T. is upset at the lack of a pullout sofa in the living room and so he has to share a room with his dad on twin beds. A. and I have the combined bed but it is enormous.
We drove over to see R., my second cousin, and his wife L. They were very welcoming! We had hoped to have dinner with them, but then the rental car fiasco. The rail strike has disrupted visits home by their college aged kids, as well. We chatted for a couple hours, then went back and slept. We still have not managed to get to a market, other than the Lidl trip in Dublin that I got some grapes and pastries for A., the same day I bought the Rolling Donut donuts. T. also visited Rolling Donut and enjoyed it. But all that food has been consumed, altho S. gave us some leftovers to take home. I had the pineapple from those leftovers as part of my breakfast today, and T. snacked on the carrots and those are the grapes that we still have.