I love to fly, the fact that I'm sitting down, while I zoom hundreds of miles an hour, thousands of feet in the air is always going to be cool to me. This was my first international flight and it was pretty luxe. TV monitors on every headrest with actually cool stuff to watch was a real treat. I caught the first couple episodes of Vikings (loved it), the pilot to True Detective (Harrelson and McConaghey have the best accents) and I finally got around to watching Captain America: The Winter Soldier (nearly perfect comic book movie). I've always been dubious about airline food, never having had it myself and hearing comedians rant about it for nearly three decades, I wondered, how do you make tasty foods without an oven? I still don't know how, but I did have a very tasty shepherds pie (thanks Aer Lingus) with a salad, some bread, cheese and a brownie reminiscent of Little Debbies. Unfortunately I had to take the baby from Charity (my wife, duh) so I had to cram my food down my gullet like a convict so that she could eat too. After an uneventful flight to my layover destination in Dublin I had a traditional Irish breakfast at the airport and I gotta say, black pudding be nasty, (same goes for white pudding) I don't know what's in it and I'm far too lazy to google it. The sausage was on point though and I've never had a potato farl before but it was like a piece of toast and a potato pancake had a tasty little baby. Also there was eggs and toast. What seems weird to me is that free water is really hard to come by in the Dublin airport, no drinking fountains (bubblers to you northern Wisconsinites) to be found anywhere. At O'hare in Chicago there is a fountain every 50 yards or so, they even have those nifty water bottle filling stations, but oh no, not on the emerald isle. I guess it's Guinness with a whiskey back or you pay almost 3 euro for a bottle of still water if you're thirsty. I'm a thirsty boy, so instead of blowing all my cash on booze and duty free perfume, I spent roughly the equivalent of 20 bucks American on several bottles of water on my trip across the pond. What happened next? Stay tuned intrepid readers, there is more to come.
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