Editing Travel Plans/Summer 2022 Europe

= Flights=

== Mika ==

* Jun 12-13 SEA-NRT
* Jun 23-24 NRT-DOH
* Jun 25 DOH-MAD; June 25 Madrid to Oliva in the morning.

== Mako ==

== Both ==

* June 28 late Alicante to Dublin
* July 4 Dublin to Amsterdam


=Travel Info=

== Ireland ==

=== Arrival Plan ===

Two arrival plans:

* Aer Lingus has an 11:45pm-1:45am on 6/28 from Alicante (ALC) to Dublin (DUB). Will likely require an airport hotel in DUB upon arrival. This does set us up for a day in Galway and/or Dublin and then either the 13:00→14:16 (Canal Bridge) bus or the 18:15→19:53 (directly to Roundstone) bus from Galway.
* Iberia has a 6:05am VLC→MAD + 8:05am-9:35am MAD→DUB which should doable. Will likely require an airport hotel in VLC. We'd then need to make our way to Galway.

Other details:

* Trains from Dublin Heuston at 11:25 and 13:25 to Galway Ceannt and take about 2h20m-2h30m.
* Dublin Heuston seems to be about 30m away from Heuston on [https://www.dublinexpress.ie/ Dublin Express] which are €7; 
* Buses from the airport to Galway also exist with [https://citylink.ie Citylink] ([https://www.citylink.ie/uploads/documents/GeneralDocuments/Galway_-_Dublin_City_-_Dublin_Airport_Express_-_Route_660_&_761_02-06-22.pdf PDF schedule). The best ones are at 14:15 which is direct from the airport to Galway. The direct one takes only 2h30m which seems better.

I think my preference is to do the Alicante→Dublin one. Stay in an airport hotel, and then take the 14:15 direct bus. But we can also do the train if that's preferable for whatever reason.

Once we get to Galway, we need to get to [https://www.google.com/maps/place/53%C2%B025'27.0%22N+9%C2%B049'33.4%22W/@53.356337,-9.813273,11z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x485a312bf78edcc7:0x98d46da8402e9ab7!7e2!8m2!3d53.4241619!4d-9.8259401 Alan's Place in Connemara] from there. This will involve a bus and then a bike rides. There are several busses a day

[https://www.buseireann.ie/inner.php?id=406&form-view-timetables-from=Galway+%28Bus+Station%29&form-view-timetables-to=Clifden+%28Library%29&form-view-timetables-route=&form-view-timetables-submit=1 Bus Schedule]:

* Best bus stop is Roundstone (House Hotel) but its a rare stop
* [https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Canal+Bridge,+stop+533121,+Athry,+County+Galway,+Ireland/53.42416,-9.82594/@53.4440258,-9.8930815,12z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m9!4m8!1m5!1m1!1s0x485a31778c58e0cd:0x4294b385dda0aa85!2m2!1d-9.8031189!2d53.4633977!1m0!3e1 Canal Bridge is bikeable] (11km)
* [https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Clifden,+County+Galway,+Ireland/53.42416,-9.82594/@53.4564331,-10.0641323,11z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m9!4m8!1m5!1m1!1s0x485a24b34aef62e9:0xa00c7a997319670!2m2!1d-10.0202388!2d53.4891345!1m0!3e1 Clifden is doable] (18.5km)

=== Departure Plan ===

Leaving on July 3 (Sunday schedule) means being on the bus from Roundstone (House Hotel) at 16:52. Arrives in Galway (Bus Station) at 18:20. We'll then need to find our way to Dublin and likely an airport hotel.

There seem to be a number of decent (although very early) flights from DUB AMS although we likely don't get to be too picky.

* One EI602 is 6:15→8:55am DUB-AMS and would work. Currently it's $56-62!