{"id":1226,"date":"2016-04-24T19:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T00:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2016-05-04T14:22:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T19:22:31","slug":"early-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/?p=1226","title":{"rendered":"Early Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/?p=1226\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><div class=\"pntrst_main_before_after\"><div class=\"pntrst-button-wrap\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\" data-pin-custom=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-pin-nopin=\"1\" class=\"pntrst-custom-pin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-buttons-pack\/bws-pinterest\/images\/pin.png\" width=\"60\"><\/a>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><div class=\"twttr_buttons\"><div class=\"twttr_twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=Early+Days\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\"  data-size=\"default\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/?p=1226\"  data-related=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><p>I&#8217;m going back to Ireland next year.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s about all the decision I&#8217;ve made so far. I was torn between another trip to the UK and going back to Ireland, but news that Aer Lingus was going to start using the same reward miles company as British Air<sup><a href=\"#footnote_0_1226\" id=\"identifier_0_1226\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Where I have a lot of stranded reward miles after converting some from my credit card to theirs when planning the UK trip.\">1<\/a><\/sup> means that I should be able to get a cheap(er) flight to Dublin than I had feared. But the new system won&#8217;t be in place until summer, so I can&#8217;t book my ticket until then, and so I don&#8217;t know the dates, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t stop me from reading travel sites and books, though. And so I&#8217;ve made a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/?page_id=1224\">itinerary page<\/a>, though all it has on it right now is some links I don&#8217;t want to forget. I mean, I know I&#8217;m going to want several days in Dublin, and a few days in Waterford<sup><a href=\"#footnote_1_1226\" id=\"identifier_1_1226\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"I haven&rsquo;t seen that much of the south east.\">2<\/a><\/sup>, and a few days in Donegal<sup><a href=\"#footnote_2_1226\" id=\"identifier_2_1226\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"I haven&rsquo;t seen that much of the north west.\">3<\/a><\/sup>, and maybe back in Doolin for a bit, and maybe go kiss the Blarney Stone again<sup><a href=\"#footnote_3_1226\" id=\"identifier_3_1226\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Kissing it&rsquo;s good for seven years. I need to recharge my gift of gab.\">4<\/a><\/sup>, but I don&#8217;t have anything definite sorted yet.<\/p>\n<p>So, like the title says, it&#8217;s early days. But it&#8217;s starting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pntrst_main_before_after\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n<ol class=\"footnotes\"><li id=\"footnote_0_1226\" class=\"footnote\">Where I have a lot of stranded reward miles after converting some from my credit card to theirs when planning the UK trip. [<a href=\"#identifier_0_1226\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/li><li id=\"footnote_1_1226\" class=\"footnote\">I haven&#8217;t seen that much of the south east. [<a href=\"#identifier_1_1226\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/li><li id=\"footnote_2_1226\" class=\"footnote\">I haven&#8217;t seen that much of the north west. [<a href=\"#identifier_2_1226\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/li><li id=\"footnote_3_1226\" class=\"footnote\">Kissing it&#8217;s good for seven years. I need to recharge my gift of gab. 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I was torn between another trip to the UK and going back to Ireland, but news that Aer Lingus was going to start using the same reward miles company as British Air1 means that I should be able to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/?p=1226\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Early Days&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[283,284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ireland-2018","category-planning-ireland-2017"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8tF5A-jM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1227,"href":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/1227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}