the first we got of dublin was a squeaky voice announcing that on leaving the plane we should hold onto something. wind around 90 miles outside, rain, 12 degrees. we left austria at around 26 degrees. then the bus to the radisson sas was more than hard to find, but we eventually got on, arrived, no more guiness at 12 am, closing time. turned on the tv and followed a parliament’s debate about some kind of social security issue. it worked, seconds after the first speaker had started i fell into a deep irish kind of sleep.
i believe.