D148 --Follow the sun

We didn't have much time before leaving Amsterdam today, but we did squeeze in a final walk around the neighborhood, some parting shots of the town & its many, many bikes, and lunch at a cool vegetarian place. I enjoyed my food, but Thomas cried foul when he was served a Greek salad with ingredients that, according to him, have no business appearing in a Greek salad (scallions, sprouts). He insisted to me that it was false advertising. I commiserated with sympathy like a good wife.


The rest of the day was spent traveling to Dublin. We originally hadn't planned on traveling to Ireland on our RTW trip – we spent 10 days there in 2003 with my brother-in-law Sean and his wife Heidi, and we were wanting to spend time in places we'd not yet visited. But, the weather in Amsterdam really got us down, so we opened up a weather forecast map for Europe to find some sun. Oddly enough, Dublin looked good and Ryan air had cheap tickets, so it was decided. It does not escape us, by the way, how incredibly fortunate we are to be able to fly off to another country at a moment's notice because the weather looks good there. All this will be coming to an end soon, but we are certainly enjoying it while it lasts. As the Beatles sang, "...tomorrow may rain so I'll follow the sun."

-Elva