We said good-bye to Gregan’s
Castle Hotel at about 9:15 a.m. and headed toward Shannon airport. At the car
return location, the agent found a small dent in the left front fender that was
not caused when we were in the car. It would cost us the 250-euro deduction on
the car insurance to pay for the damage. There were a lot of soldiers wearing
U.S. Army uniforms in the airport, but I did not see any on our flight to
London Heathrow.
Our rental car in London, a
Ford Focus, had GPS as requested. What a treat! At one point the GPS failed to
track our location and we had to pull off the freeway, park the car and turn it
off and then on again to reboot the GPS, which started right back up again and
we had no further problems with it. It led us to Lower Slaughter but since we
did not have an exact address, it did not lead us to the Mill Stream Cottage.
Abby got out and asked the employee at the Old Mill gift shop for directions,
but did not use exactly the right name for the cottage. As we studied the paper
map, we realized that we needed to go around the block and approach the old
mill from the other side. As we did so, there was Chris’s face in the window of
the Mill Stream Cottage. We had arrived!
We were warmly greeted by
Chris and Laurie, who had already been in Europe for three weeks. They got us
something to drink and then some hors d’oeuvres. After a good chat, Laurie
fixed some baked haddock filets with roasted vegetables for dinner. We were
glad to have arrived at our destination with any serious problems and to back
together with our good friends, Chris and Laurie.
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