Dublin; Sunday, 19 February, 2017

If anything, the breakfast this morning was even more chaotic and busier than the previous day. I managed to get a seat but as soon as I stood up – actually to go and get some more juice – a couple swooped in and grabbed my table so I decided that was a clear indication that I wasn’t going to have any more breakfast.

I headed back up to my room to pack my bags and then went back downstairs to join the long queue of people checking out.

It took about a quarter of an hour to get through the queue, checkout and leave my luggage with the reception team, but thankfully I was still in time to catch the tour bus back round to the docklands area rather than having a long walk.

My first stop of the morning was the Epic Ireland exhibition held in one of the former customs bonded warehouses by the Liffey. The museum tells the history of emigration from Ireland as well as exploring the Irish diaspora around the world and the impact of the Irish on Science and the Arts.

I spent quite a long time looking round the museum, and by the time I’d caught the bus back round to O’Connell street I was feeling very peckish so I stopped for a largish lunch – given my breakfast had been rudely interrupted.

After lunch, I had about an hour to kill before I needed to get the bus back to the airport so I wandered over to the GPO to look around the exhibition on the 1916 Easter Rising.

It was a very interesting exhibition and in the end I had to skip some of the final exhibits as I realised it was getting very close to the time I needed to head back to the airport.

I wandered back over to the hotel, collected my luggage, picked up the AirLink bus and made my way back to the airport and my journey home.