Concluding the adventure or a mystery solved
Ok this wasn't as much a mystery as when I was trapped aboard a trans-Atlantic flight when people starting falling (literally) ill, or tracking down a lost college girl in a white tshirt among a Boston marathon before the creepy family disappeared with her (seriously, white tshirt among thousands of nearly identical tshirts and a REALLY creepy family ... They kept ogling her like she was prime beef or something)
The end to this is slightly more pedestrian.
As happenstance would have it, our tour was two tour groups. I had suspected that given the way the guides were sorting people. What I didn't suspect was that our group of 25 was still multiple tours. It seems our one day was overlapped with a multiple day tour. We took long enough at each stop and with that number of people, things ran late. One group was to go to Killenny, the other (ours) was bound for Dublin. The tour guide didn't want to go 70 miles out of the way before heading to Dublin.
That much I confirmed, now the part with the driver is conjecture but the pieces fit. What I suspect is that the driver, impatient to maintain schedule, was trying to leave us. Billy, our guide, I believe talked him out of it which explains the tense conversation that was much longer than "hey we're runnin late" "ok, I know". In the end, Billy pulled strings with a conductor and got us a train. Which got the Killenny tour back on track and the rest of us towards Dublin. It also explains why the buss was not parked where it should be, and why the driver looked so perturbed.
I think anyway. I have not asked to confirm that last part, nor will I. The tour guide was doing his best to keep a good face on the tour company and its services. No matter, those of us from the tour bound for Dublin made it to the train and headed on quietly to Dublin.
Ok, not exactly 'Murder on the Orient Express' complete with dead bodies, more like 'Near shanghai on the Blarney tour'. Well, maybe there were bodies, we did visit a cathedral that had the bodies of two deceased bishops, do they count?
-- Post From My iPhone
The end to this is slightly more pedestrian.
As happenstance would have it, our tour was two tour groups. I had suspected that given the way the guides were sorting people. What I didn't suspect was that our group of 25 was still multiple tours. It seems our one day was overlapped with a multiple day tour. We took long enough at each stop and with that number of people, things ran late. One group was to go to Killenny, the other (ours) was bound for Dublin. The tour guide didn't want to go 70 miles out of the way before heading to Dublin.
That much I confirmed, now the part with the driver is conjecture but the pieces fit. What I suspect is that the driver, impatient to maintain schedule, was trying to leave us. Billy, our guide, I believe talked him out of it which explains the tense conversation that was much longer than "hey we're runnin late" "ok, I know". In the end, Billy pulled strings with a conductor and got us a train. Which got the Killenny tour back on track and the rest of us towards Dublin. It also explains why the buss was not parked where it should be, and why the driver looked so perturbed.
I think anyway. I have not asked to confirm that last part, nor will I. The tour guide was doing his best to keep a good face on the tour company and its services. No matter, those of us from the tour bound for Dublin made it to the train and headed on quietly to Dublin.
Ok, not exactly 'Murder on the Orient Express' complete with dead bodies, more like 'Near shanghai on the Blarney tour'. Well, maybe there were bodies, we did visit a cathedral that had the bodies of two deceased bishops, do they count?
-- Post From My iPhone
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