Ways

Train from Dublin to Limerick requires a change at Limerick Junction. The choice was between a noon train that requires a change but only one stop at Thurles, or a milk train that goes all the way to Limerick and stops at every station on the way. Not that we’re in a hurry. But the direct train leaves at 1:35,which could eat into nap time at the hotel, or worse, social and drinking time with the group.

From what I remember, the train change involves only a few steps across the platform. Good thing, cause the schedule (pronounced shedule) says we have three minutes to make the switch.

The train is rather shopworn and the seats are minimally padded, and the shocks and springs and roadbed combine to make for quite a bouncy ride — a far cry from our last train trips in Sweden in the trains tha lean into the curves. It zips along under gray skies and the landscape is not very green at this time of year. Trees are just budding out in the city and things still looking rather brown. Need some rain, which the forecast promises during the next ten days of our trip. Our time in Dublin has been remarkably rain-free, but compensation is around the next curve.