IAOI 01 – Dublin

Well, the flight went ok and so we landed to a beautiful sunny day at Dublin Airport.

Having only booked a hotel for the last night of our trip, Sunday, our first priority was to get to a major town where we  would be sure to be able to ‘dop in’ unannounced to an hotel and rest our heads. Cork seemed to be a realistic target, given that it was mid-day already.

We had origianlly booked a Mini as a hire car, we decided that as we were doing a road-trip we should probably upgrade to something a bit more roomy. As Terry would be driving, he wanted something with elbow room.

As Terry was the one hiring, driving and being responsible for the car, he had a look round…

A very thorough look round!

We opted for a Hyundai ix35, which turned out to be a surpisingly excellent car on the winding roads we were to traverse. Not a great deal of room in the boot, but as we were travelling light anyway it was ideal for a two-man road-trip.

And so we set off for Cork.