Traffic Nightmare: M7 to M50

Michele Erdvig · Host

Traffic Nightmare: M7 to M50

CowboyCraic · Guru

Welcome Home, Mo Chara,

So sorry to hear that your luggage has taken an extended holiday. It must be the danged faeries!

Yet one more reason why I avoid Dublin. I hope that the rest of your trip was a smash!

Slan Agus Barrogs, Bit

youngka · Guru

Hi Michele! Sure hope they find your suitcase.......Know you had a wonderful time each and every day.....and----hope the weather was mostly good. I knew there was a reason we go into Shannon. Also, glad from what others have written about Dublin...... Welcome home! Youngka

yesiree · Guru

Sounds like the M50 has gotten even worse than it was this summer...and I was no happy camper then. I was lucky though, it was a Sunday morning and even with the light traffic it was busy and cramped.

Welcome back, Michele.

jsarcher · Member

Michele,

We just experienced the exact same thing in late September! The M50 really is a mess right now, and so is Dublin Airport. I doubt if I'll be making a return trip to that corner of the country. Delta also lost my father's luggage, but it was delivered to him five days later to our house. Hopefully it doesn't take too long for them to find yours!

John

PS--Wasn't the weather great?

Sidz · Guru

Everytime I think about flying into Dublin I see something like this posted. Wow -- it sounds like a real mess. I think I will stick with Shannon when possible, as it appears the M50 is terrible to deal with.

-- Edited by Sidz at 16:29, 2008-10-16

Michele Erdvig · Host

Thanks all for your welcome home! The first part of my trip had wonderful weather. I think those 10 days were the Irish summer everyone missed because of the deluges in June - Aug. Then it got cold and blustery and then moderated to typical cool, showery autumn weather with a few nice days thrown in. The trees were just changing when I left.

If you remember I complained about finding the car rental returns in the spring at Dublin Airport. Well, they have changed the entire road network around and through the airport yet again. By following the car rental signs we ended up at the repair depots of the car rental companies. Following the instructions of the person working there it only took another half hour of driving in circles (and asking a road construction worker) where to find the rental return lots. I think it is a shell game of "hide the car rental lots from tourists". If you are returning to Dublin give yourself extra time for the maze. The road system through the airport had changed from my arrival to my departure. What a difference 27 days makes. They had plenty of time to move all those barricades and cones to a new configuration.

I will be callilng Delta once the Dublin flight gets in this afternoon in search of my lost bag. If it doesn't show up I can always buy new clothes but I will really miss my travel alarm with built in flashlight and all those brochures I brought back from Ireland.

Michele

Michele Erdvig · Host

Sidz,

And they make you pay for the privilege of using the M50!!

Michele

Michele Erdvig · Host

Yea! My suitcase arrived in one piece. biggrin

Michele

Anchoress · Guru

We have had the coldest October for 74 years. Found myself driving through the Barnesmore Gap ( Balleybofey to Donegal Town) in a blizzard one day.

An "interesting" experience indeed!!!

But the days we have been able to be out selling have seen our beautiful Donegal knitted hats selling well. So that is a blessing indeed for our work.

The trees are a sheer glory now. Just take the breath away.

Then finer days and now back to gales and deluges.

Certainly never boring.

youngka · Guru

Michele, I am just browsing tonight and saw you got your suitcase back! GOOD. I know what you mean about the brochures, it is so much fun gathering them. Youngka