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Day Eleven: Scotland here we come...

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Today was an uneventful day. Our flight to Glasgow from Dublin left at 7:30pm, but the only things planned today were mailing our Ireland souvenirs back home and driving from Limerick to Dublin, dropping of the car rental and then heading to our gate. Mailing our souvenirs took a little time, because the post office only took cash or credit cards with chips. European credit cards have security chips in them that American cards do not and some places will only take " chip and pin " cards, we found this the case especially at non-touristy places like the grocery store and post office. We found an ATM and then finished up at the post office. We shipped a lot of our souvenirs throughout our trip, especially before we flew anywhere. The weight limit for bags when traveling within Europe is 44lbs, so instead of paying the overweight bag fee we paid to ship them home. Plus when the trip was over and we got home, opening the boxes was like Christmas! After returning our car we too