aKademy 2006 - Day 3
Posted by George Wright Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:47:00 GMT
The last day of aKademy for me - so it was rather uneventful. After sleeping the night on the bunk on top of Chris because of the bed cock-up the night before, we realised that we had overslept and that the cleaners were coming round to kick us out. I must say that I’m not disappointed to see the back of the accommodation.. I caught several illnesses and got very little sleep during aKademy this year.
Upon arriving at Trinity College Dublin, I just wandered around aimlessly for a while and then ended up in a pub eating lunch with Rich Moore and Richard Dale. Afterwards, it was unfortunately time for me to leave and get to the airport.
When people intend to leave, here’s some advice. There are buses that go to the airport from the bus station near the hostel, but they take a long time to get there and aren’t very comfortable. On the other hand, if you get to the road with huuuugggeee spike in it, there’s an “Aircoach” which will take you directly to the airport and it’s nice and comfortable. It took about 30-40 minutes in the middle of heavy traffic on Tuesday and cost me 7 EUR, as opposed to the 5 EUR the bus would have charged. I think the extra 2 EUR was worth it.
Finally, I’d like to thank Marcus for doing a great job with aKademy this year. There were relatively few mess ups and those that did happen weren’t his fault so much kudos to Marcus.
Nasty illness - a good gift for gf from nice trip ;)
I am usually fairly thrifty but I thoroughly recommend the Aircoach. The return ticket is only E12 if I recall correctly.
The road with the big spike on it is O’Connel Street, the main street of Dublin.