Ireland day 0499. Thursday 09 February 2023- UK Day Trip *

Ireland day 0499. Thursday 09 February 2023- UK Day Trip

Today’s summary	A flying day-trip visit to the UK to deal with some personal business. All went well except a critical train in the UK was badly delayed so I had to take a taxi at great expense
Today’s weather	Dry cold and clear in Dublin; foggy and drizzly in London though clearing later. Hardly any wind. Appx 5C

Today’s overview location (The blue mark shows the location of my route)		Close-up location (The blue line shows where I walked) (No GPX today)

Commentary

(Summary blog only. Last full blog was Day 0368).

A flying visit (literally) back to the UK to deal with some family business.

A horrendously early start (ugh) needed to catch the 0730 flight from Dublin to Gatwick. Back on the 21:35 so it’s a long day. Most of the travel – except for the UK trains – seemed to go straightforwardly. The critical train I needed to catch was so badly delayed that in the end I had to take a taxi for the last part of the journey – at great expense.

Today’s photos (click to enlarge)


On time…	Long cold wait on the tarmac while the aircraft recovered from being de-iced

Bird’s Eye view of Lambay (top) and Ireland’s Eye (bottom) islands off the east coast near Malahide. A few minutes after take-off from Dublin this morning.	My journey from the airport and back again involved innumerable rain journeys and I seemed to spend much of the day hanging around waiting for trains. The critical one of which was delayed so badly that I ended up having to take a taxi



It’s usually pretty chaotic at the T1 drop off area, but given that it was before 6am when I arrived (thanks Val for the getting up early and giving me a lift!), not too bad this morning. Thankfully, the airport haven’t started charging for drop-offs)