Spontaneity Shannon

I love spontaneity when it comes to travelling. One cold winters day I was surfing the next and found a flight for 1p and then 1 hour later, Jo and I were booked to go to Shannon for 3 days. We flew with Ryanair where cheapness screams out. The safety card is not in the back of the seat, I could barely fit my legs in the seat and no sick bags! But for 1p I would sit on the floor. Our flight was 45 mins long and we were 35 mins early, pretty good going. By the way, if you hire a car you ended to pick up the keys first. Don't follow the instructions they give you and have to walk back in the rain to get the key.

Our first issue was how to start the car. A good 15 minutes passed of looking through the manuals, looking for buttons, cards but no that’s not it…you have to put your foot on the break to start the car! So after a little kangeroo-ing, we were off on the Irish road to Ennis.
We stayed overnight with Anne and Pat, it was a bit like staying at grandma's. We had chintz, a dolly toilet roll cover, patterned bubbly walls, carpet and curtains, china sets and many many wedding pictures. One shocking thing, they had Christmas decorations up in January! Little did we know that this was a feature of the whole trip.

So we slept without a drop of Guinness running through our veins.