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Amsterdam hier kommen we

It’s time to move on to our next place of adventure. It’s once again sad to say goodbye to York as we both quite enjoyed it (Faiza can easily live here). So after collecting our clothes from laundry (Samir was so nice he did the washing for us while we did our exploring of York) we packed our little room at Friar’s Rest guest house and made our way to Newcastle. We stopped at Durham for coffee along way.

Can’t speak highly enough of “Enterprise Car Hire” excellent customer service both at pickup and also when we dropped the car off gave us a lift to the ferry terminal and were a great deal cheaper than the others …
Finally on board our “Ferry” (cruise ship, the DFDS Sea Princess) with some time to kill before it departs … enjoying a late lunch. (At an astronomical price). So far (even before leaving dock) we are not impressed with the cruise liner. Especially the prices of things lol….

The Emerald Isle

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Headed back to Holyhead with a quick stop back at Llanfair (that long named place) to get our passports stamped (why … because we could!).

The name means: [St.] Mary’s Church (Llanfair) [in] the hollow (pwll) of the white hazel (gwyngyll) near (goger) the rapid whirlpool (y chwyrndrobwll) [and] the church of [St.] Tysilio (llantysilio) with a red cave ([a]g ogo goch).

Once at Holyhead ferry port we farewelled our faithful Kia steed and boarded the “Swift” Irish Ferry … in club class (with a window seat and everything) for a two hour trip to Dublin, we were pleased to find complimentary nibbles and drinks (even some gluten free).

Dublin …ahhh..reminds us of London…which reminds us of Sydney ..very multicultural and very expensive! haven’t really heard an Irish accent yet! but heard almost every other language.

On board the ferry to Dublin

The “club class” floor

More “club class”

Freezing on the back of the ferry

Still freezing

Welcome to Ireland

The “Townhouse” where we are staying

somewhere in Dublin city …

Then dinner and a Guinness at the local pub the “Celt”

Well maybe two

Last Full Day In London

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Hopped a train to Westminster, saw The House of Parliament, Westminster Abbey and then spent a couple of hours in the excellent Winston Churchill war rooms / museum before lunch then deciding the London eye was more expensive than we were willing to pay and instead deciding on a ferry trip up the Thames to the Grenwich museum, painted hall and chapel ending off the day catching up with an old mate at the Camino tapas bar for a pint or two …