The train to Belfast was uneventful really. We played some rummy, ate some junk food (bad cookies which we later threw away the rest of) and had some 'nescafe' from the 'dining car'.
We thought we'd have to hunt around in the Belfast train station for the connecting train which we had only 13 minutes to find and board. We were wrong. I asked a train employee right as we stepped off the train which platform had the 'on to dublin' train on it. The man said "right there". It was immediately on the opposite track on the same platform. No problem.
A few more hours and we arrived in Dublin. A question of the locals about which way was North and we walked to our hotel. Arrived at the Charles Stewart Guesthouse promptly to find a note from Jimmy Kennedy there to meet us. He'd come 20 minutes earlier (about 5pm) and wrote us that he'd come back at 6pm. We settled in, got some internet and uploaded some pix. Jimmy saw me through the window and hollered my name. Success! We met our first fellow-traveler-person in Ireland!
Jimmy and the four of us walked around town after trying to secure a trip to Newgrange for tomorrow. We failed. :( We will stay in Dublin instead of leaving town for the day.
After spending the night, we decided to go and check into the new hotel (Jury's Inn) and see what it was like. On the way there, Nick spotted us walking on the street on the opposite side of himself and Therese, Tony and Casey. We've found our next 'fellow travelers'! (they found us).
Now we are NINE people. The dynamic is now different. Far different.
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