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We’re on day number three of rain. Sadly we’re also on day number four of the girls six-day vacation. (We’re also on the bus to Wexford to stay at a hotel with a pool so we no longer care about the weather.)

We went into town yesterday and it was a complete bust. I rarely write about our bad luck here so I thought I’d give a glimpse of the other side. We went into town for the Shakespeare Festival. They were doing readings on the hour in Stephen’s Green, which seemed kind of funny because Monday was also a big mini-marathon on town. I think they said 40,000 participated and it ended near the Green. SO it seemed like a strange place for a Shakespeare reading – but we had a brochure that we had picked up on Saturday.

Well it turns out that they had moved the Shakespeare events but the Festival people didn’t post signs or try in any other way to let the potential audience know. We figured we were just late for the first reading – and the specific directions given were, well not so specific – “central area, Stephen’s Green”. So we blamed ourselves for missing the first reading. The next reading was at the Yeats memorial – which is actually specific. So we were kind of annoyed when we got there and found only about 6 other people waiting for the show and one funny couple making out. We were annoyed enough to call he number of the brochure and they told us (in the pouring rain) that the events had been moved. Arragh. We tried to ease the pain with hot chocolates at Cafe En Seine. (Sad that hot chocolate would hit the spot in June!)

So we did kind of soak up the mini-marathon atmosphere, which was fun. Until we realized that we couldn’t get the bus home from the regular stop because it would have the bus going through the runners. So we followed the instructions for the alternate stop – but after 45 minutes (in the pouring rain) we realized that maybe the bus wasn’t coming. So we went to another alternate location – same thing. Eventually after walking about 30 more minutes (in the pouring rain) we got a taxi. The tricky part about getting a taxi we’re a group of five and most taxies can’t fit us in.

So that’s kind of why we decided to get the heck out of Dublin and we’re on the bus to Wexford.