Monday morning brought the first rain we saw in Ireland. It started as a slow drizzle and quickly turned to a steady rainfall. In many ways it felt refreshing after a muggy weekend in the middle of a big city.
We made our way to the Queen of Tarts, a cure little coffee and pastry shop near Dublin Castle. After filling our bellies with scones, and in Grady's case lemon meringue tarts, we walked back to our little hotel to check out.
Staunton's on the Green was a nice little place to stay, although it lacked most amenities we have come to expect from a hotel (restaurant, bar, etc.). The people running it were delightful and the location was pretty good (other than when concerts were playing in our back yard). They called us a taxi and we made our way to the airport car rental terminal.
Our cab driver (a highly entertaining man who trained with Connor McGregor) dropped us at the Dollar/Thrifty/Hertz rental company location. We promptly got in line behind dozens of people. yes, dozens. I have rented cars in Hawaii and Los Angeles and thought those lines were long. This was simply ridiculous. There were over 100 people crammed into a small waiting area and the line wasn't moving at all. One guy estimated at least a 3 hour wait to get a car.
That was not going to work for us. I kept noticing these signs that read Hertz Gold club. I had rented through Dollar but my rental paperwork said it was being serviced through Hertz. I hopped on the free wifi and signed up for Hertz gold membership (free). We were then told that the Hertz gold was back at the airport. Now, we knew this was a risk but we honestly could not fathom waiting in that 3 hour line.
So we hopped on a shuttle to the airport and made our way to the Hert
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