Il Voglio (the flight)

Finally underway, right on time with the scheduled 6:00 p.m. departure. The first hour was quite beautiful as we had various layers of clouds and setting sun.  Drinks and dinner were served fairly early into the flight, as I think they wanted to allow ‘sleepers’ to get their lights out quickly, especially due to the rather short duration of the flight. 

We had a very nice meal with some champagne and wine and then stretched out to try to get a bit of rest.  The seats folded flat to make a small bed ‘chaise.’  It was fun to ‘drive’ our seats into position, comfortable with quite a bit of stretch out room.  It was, however, really confusing to our body clocks! and we never fell totally asleep. The way the timing worked out, we arrived in Dublin at 5:00 a.m., which was really midnight for us……..very strange.

The arrival in Dublin was rather uneventful.  In fact, it was a bit eerie as there was virtually no one in the airport.  We went through Security and baggage claim without seeing anyone other than those that were getting off our plane.  We were out of the airport and getting into a cab within about 15 minutes.  We decided the best thing to do was go to the hotel and see if there was any chance that we could get into our room early (very early!).