Waiting.....and waiting.....and waiting

An uneventful journey back to Dublin, hire care safely returned, teatime flight delayed......delayed a bit more.....delayed a lot more......cancelled!  We followed an Aer Lingus person back through the airport, collected our bags, went to ticket queries along with lots of others folks.  Apparently, some folks had already been re-booked on Manchester and Birmingham flights with taxis home, not us. With a busload of others we were told to go to the hotel for an overnight stay and re-book.   When the shuttle bus for the hotel arrived, it was a mini bus so Tony didn't get on the first trip and I managed both large bags into the hotel to book in.  I messaged him the room number and set about ringing aer lingus to re book flights.  The helpful person on the other end of the conversation told me a) we had been booked on an evening flight to Birmingham......and b). there were no spaces on flights to Leeds Bradford until Wednesday, aarrgghh!

Long story short we are up at an unearthly hour tomorrow for the 6.30 flight to Manchester and then we have to find our own way home....and I didn't bring my senior railcard.....

On the plus side we have enjoyed decent food (on our vouchers) and proper baths in the Crowne Plaza!