18th September
Today started off as normal, we got up and sorted our luggage into the car and locked up our little house behind us. We already know our original ferry had been cancelled due to the weather, and we had been moved to a later ferry at 2pm instead. This meant we had more time in the morning to sort ourselves out and do a bit of shopping when we got to Holyhead.
We found Holyhead and the city centre with no problems and wandered around for a while before getting into the car to head to the ferry. This was when I found out my phone had decided to go for a walk by itself. Thankfully a lovely lady had found it and through a very tense 45 mins later, several calls to Australia and back, I managed to meet her in front of the Co-op and retrieve my phone. Thank God for honest people.
This put us running a bit behind schedule. We struggled to find a petrol station to fill the hire car up before returning it to the Hertz man. We must have literally been the last bus load of people onto the ferry as they literally shut the doors behind us. BUT, we made it onto the ferry!
The ferry was massive! Very nicely set out, with lots of different rooms and forms of entertainment. We settled our selves in the bar in a booth with two cushy arm chairs. Unfortunately there were no window seats left, but we could see around and outside enough. The first half of the journey was pleasant enough, the Captain had warned us of rough seas and you did sway a little when you walked around. It wasn't until the second half of the journey the sea sickness started! Let's just say there is definitely no career in the Navy for me!
Once we arrived in Dublin, it was reiterated to us that we were the last on, as all our luggage was the first to come off the boat! So we collected them all, piled them onto a trolley and went to find the Hertz man here. But there was no Hertz man.
Our car was waiting in the City for us to collect not at the ferry.
And the City car rental place was closed.
And our Airbnb Lady was waiting at our accommodation to meet us. (We had informed her of the change of ferry time, however had assumed we could be there straight after we docked).
So now we had to catch a taxi to our accommodation, throw Nan out to organise that and Mum and I took the taxi out to the airport to organise the car.
Thankfully the nice ferry lady rung us a taxi (who took 45 mins to appear!!) and we were on our way. We threw Nan out the car as we passed, and continued on to the airport. Again, Thankfully they had an appropriate car we could use as the one we had hired wasn't there!
Mum and I made it back to our Airbnb, stopping for milk along the way and making several unintentional detours when we missed the turn offs and corners and finished a VERY stressful day with a nice cup of tea. Sorry for the extra grey hairs Mum and Nan!
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