We started of pretty early, but very comfortably. We did our packing without almost any stress the two evenings before.
The morning dawned and - surprise - the sun was out and we had blue sky, pleasent after 3 days of snow and cloudyness. Rebecca prepared the lunchbags and even made hardboiled eggs, which we enjoyed later :) And of we went - an hour time until the train leaves at 9.25, a large and a small suitcase for checked luggage, and two backpacks. Oops only 5 minutes until the the tram leaves,
Ruuuuun...
Needless to say we still had to wait a couple of minutes when we arrived at the stop.
Man, are we tired, more or less leaning next to a pole or each other not to fall down when we close our eyes.
There was just a little hurdle on the way, to find the right Ersatzbus (replacement bus), since they ripped out the tracks to replace them in Herrngasse. But we made it in time.
The train even leaves on platform 1a, what a convenient change to using the underground walkway to platform 3 (is that permanent?).
Now we are in the train sitting in a pretty comfy 4 seat seating area with a table, Becca be in and out of sleeping and me... ah yeah blogging :)
Enjoying coffee and other things ...
Pssssst, don't make a sound. That was kinda nice - it think that's new in the Railsjets - a silent area.
Only that not all the people there realized that, until...
... Rebecca asked the conductor innocently 'Excuse me, what do these signs mean' and he awesomly reacted by loudly teaching the pessangers, that they should be quiet and if they don't like it they could go into another section of the train
'Thank you, sir' :)
Aren't they cute? Rebecca asked for salt and pepper, and that's what we got ... so herzig!
On the way to Vienna we could enjoy Austrias beautiful nature wrapped in a white blanket of snow :)
On the airport we stralled through the duty free area
even our feet liked to rest, can you see how they smile?!
The flight was pretty undramatic.
Finally we arrived in Dublin, or Dubhlinn, how we learned later in Dublinia, it was supposedly called looooong time ago by the vikings, who founded the city. It means 'black pool' because that's where they arrived with their ships when the drove up the River Liffey.
But here we are - our lovely room!
Right away we enjoyed a little treat!
The morning dawned and - surprise - the sun was out and we had blue sky, pleasent after 3 days of snow and cloudyness. Rebecca prepared the lunchbags and even made hardboiled eggs, which we enjoyed later :) And of we went - an hour time until the train leaves at 9.25, a large and a small suitcase for checked luggage, and two backpacks. Oops only 5 minutes until the the tram leaves,
Ruuuuun...
Man, are we tired, more or less leaning next to a pole or each other not to fall down when we close our eyes.
There was just a little hurdle on the way, to find the right Ersatzbus (replacement bus), since they ripped out the tracks to replace them in Herrngasse. But we made it in time.
Now we are in the train sitting in a pretty comfy 4 seat seating area with a table, Becca be in and out of sleeping and me... ah yeah blogging :)
Only that not all the people there realized that, until...
... Rebecca asked the conductor innocently 'Excuse me, what do these signs mean' and he awesomly reacted by loudly teaching the pessangers, that they should be quiet and if they don't like it they could go into another section of the train
'Thank you, sir' :)
On the airport we stralled through the duty free area
After a while we got quite tired of running around and killing time
even our feet liked to rest, can you see how they smile?!
The flight was pretty undramatic.
Finally we arrived in Dublin, or Dubhlinn, how we learned later in Dublinia, it was supposedly called looooong time ago by the vikings, who founded the city. It means 'black pool' because that's where they arrived with their ships when the drove up the River Liffey.
But here we are - our lovely room!
Right away we enjoyed a little treat!
And after we couldn't find a quiet pub (man this folk is loud) we returned to the hotel to have a little 'Welcome to Ireland' drink, guess which one (nope it's not coke) :)
Sláinte!
