Ieland 2009 pg 106

Ireland 2009 pg 106


Poor Denis must be wondering if I am dead or not by now.
Dont want to try andcall him until go thew security.
The buena nada airport is shut down at 8 PM.

All gone, No check in .No baggage. Half the bars and food shops shut down because of it and the Dublin Buses all of the road.
It is a form of self distrcution.

Ajaniotr got me pointed up the stairs to the fast food deck, floor 3.
Not to worry I told him I was living rough.

All the students are here at Starbucks sitting around in soft chairs.
They stay up all night anyway.
McDs is open 24 hours. Good for them.

I think it is just plain cruelity for the international to shut down their faclities in Ireland befoe it even gets dark?

It is the only place closed at night in Ireland except Leinster House.
And thd sheep are stil grazing.


Went down on the 11.30 to I though Rosslare Port.
However some jerk was on board probably some goverment spy for the FF. Forgot what he called himself.

This guy is jelous that I have a bus pass as a senior and he has paid rates Thought he should have it nobody else but of course his friends and reltives.
The Irish are greedy and selfish.

They remind me ofa lot of US Republicans.
All for me and mad as hell if anybody else gets more crumbs than they do.

Anyway he distracted me and I got off 2 stops befoe the damn EuroPort and didnt know it and thought to walk up but never did as the bay to far.

We final found out when the 4.30 didnt show up back to Dub.That this stop was Wiklow City and came at 5.00 PM.
So I missed the big ferry port to France after all that.
My fault half way for being distracted.
Amusing this old fart instead of watching out for myself.

There is one guarantee about this bunch.
No matter where they are they would never lift a finger to hauls someything for you.They are entirleya do it yourself crowd.
Its a dead giveawy as to their uselessness.

The library goofed up this AM giving me only 1/2 hour too, not 55 minutes.
More Eriecom interference and abuse.
However I was not able to get a copy email of to sheila to phone Denis on the train as couldnt find her under H or S.
I guess it may be under Denis.

Than like a fool I put a damn euro in the bus machine for the 10 minutes and that mouse wouldnt work and then the thing wouldnt send and finaly the gs was working and this machine cut out .
So poor D sent all the way to the westside looking for me to say goodby.

But I am glad I went on to Laigean and viewed that coastal region.

I have a pretty good fix on the geography of the island now and have absorbed a lot in the 2 months both good and bad.

It was a worthwhile trip except for the bout with the Daft people.
Perhaps we can get Orfig Failte to make a related checked out list of accomidations, shared and rooms for us seniors on fixed incomes
so we can spend a week here and a week there at rates we can afford and be assured of not being treated unequally as this service did.
As with the hostels, B,& Bs and hotels they should be regulated to inspection lists
to be sure to preform well a nd do not violate any law in this country regarding shelters.
It would be helful too,to have the Pub Link for all the small stops on the roads where the old system still prevailed and welcomed visitrs and bringers of news from the rest of Irealnd or the great outside world.


The night was spent amongh some shady charathers hanging out upthere and having been into the stong drink the three of them abttu 30 were eastern Europeans some gong home i guess.
They cant speak English so the Polish schools as proficient as they are in their past dont teach it as a language of business.
Probably Russian is taught or German.
It is too far west for them. The eatern Europeans love their territory and coutries out there as wel lthey should.

I was able to lie down for about two hours after the central restarant got done cleaning about 2 am.
Around 4 I was up and ready to stay up.
I got some warm water for tea at the toilets and washed up a bit.
It got lite at 5 and that made me more restless.
I took the exscalators down from the third floor restarants to the loading floor.
Delta was still closed asthe other two US lines.
However the French adn German and Air Lingus and other European lines were opening their kiosks and their lines of travelers were going in to security with their electronic issued boarding passes.

I sat on my case in front ofthe Delta kiosk but they never came in.
I finally asked the French when they came.
They said they tought about 6. I waited more. at 6 no one came. At 7 someone fianaly showed up a half hour after Continental next them. i said to the lady where the heck have you been ?
She did not think iIwas respectful enough of their unionized arrival but I told her all the European lines were working at dawn and the early bird catches the worm.
She directed me to the just opening passport check line out in the lobby.
Stiil had to wait till they set up a maze of yellow police line streamers for about half an hour.
I finally went over to the Delta check in podium where there were 4 workers standing around talking to each other to see if could get the bags on.

No. had to wait again sitting there onthe bags while they set ups some damn computer and talked.

Finally one of the ladies there said where are you goign. I said US on Delta What the hell did she think I was in their line for?

Let me have your passport. Which one says I big smart mouth. I have the Irish or the American.
Oh says she dont use the Irish one they will stop you and never let you in the US .Give me your US one.

They're that far gone I commented.
She said yes it was very hard for a tourist or foreigner to get into the US just now.
The exchange has been consistantly favorable to the us dollar being 35 or so cents less than the ot'buy american' policy devaluting the dollar to persuade ntions in crisis to buy the only thing mdde in the US armanents, tanks, guns ,amo ,and airoplanes at a billion or so. We dont yet sell 'the bomb'just littel bunker bustera dncluster fire bombs.
She and two men ran my passport numbers in their computer and I guess I am not ona watch list so I was cleared and a boarding pass issued which I took to the baggage and got the bags checked. Fianlly at the last minute.

I think Delta processes business tickets first so I was just so conspucious as to embarrass them sitting there on my old red bag alongside their 40 feet of police line tapes.

I than got throug the maze to the end where an Irish was looking at me with interest in his eyes like I hope you make it.
I went to duck under the police tape as it went about 50 yard beyond his door to the boarding place, or security I guess.
At this point
he stopped me said go the right way- a bit of a brough I guess he was afraid I would set of an alarm escaping the obstruction.

However I passed throuh his door without a slan as I did the bus driver who broght me in the previous night,
and finaly found out which way to go to find the security check point.
Sailed through that but they have a customs inspection further on which all boarders have to have their carry on luggage looked at and delclare if they bought anything in Irleland. This is freetrade.

This was another obstruction and invasive process and asked the purpose of it.
A stand by Irish said to assist me in passing customs in the US. They gave everybody a delcaration slip to fill out that you presented to customs that you have been inspected before boarding and cleared.

The/Delta boarding area was normal.
I had a cup of tea from the restrooms and was relieved to just sit there for 20 minutes after the wild night withthe friends of eastern europe mcDs road warriors and the cleaning staff.

I think I had scone or something left over and ate that.
We old ladies never travel without coffe, tea sugar, a knife fork and spoon, and some thing to eat besides potato chips.

judi donnelly
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16 june 2009