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Flew into Dublin

Well the plane sat on the runway for an hour... but I needed a sleep anyway. The landing was possibly the roughest I have ever experienced (British Midlands) however no-one tried to light their shoes or hijack the flight so I suppose you can call that a successful flight.

Dublin ariport is an interesting place... not enough signs. When we went to the rental car place the chick behind the counter was possibly the least helpful person in the universe. She also had on long false nails that made it impossible for her to type our details into their computer system making the time it took her to book us into their system 25 minutes. National Car rentals, excellent.

Then the real problems began.. trying to find the place to pick up the rental car from. It is about 2 degrees C and I am pushing about 2 tonnes of christmas presents around on a trolley that was designed by Satan himself, or perhaps it was just posessed by some minor daemon, however it refused to go in any direction I wanted it to...

so anyway, we make it to the right place after I made a discrete phonecall to National Car Rentals to ask them where the hell their car pickup place was. Hint: it is NOT in the car park with the big "National Car Rentals" sign. Which is amusing in the fact that if it WAS next to that sign it would have been really easy to find.

Anyway, we get there and they try to porn off some other make and sized vehicle that was indeed completely and utterly different from the car we had just booked in with the chick with the nails - not 20 mins earlier. So eventually we got something with five doors and some boot space that could fit the 1 million bags we had with us... but it was automatic... and did have a small engine... no matter it was really cold and I had given up arguing. Thank god Finola was there to give them a good talking to.

We then proceeded to drive to Finolas mates place where we have a few quiets (not to many as I am driving) and then proceed to her sisters place where we stayed the night.

We were stuffed so didn't last long... sleepy time...

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