Kildare Hotel and Country Club.(Kildare, Ireland)

From: USA Today (Magazine) | Date: September 1, 1996| Author: Rothenberg, Robert S.; Rothenberg, Sheila | Copyright information

WE WERE AWAKENED by the sound of someone stomping heavily across the floor of the room above us. Our initial annoyance was tempered when we checked the clock and found that the time was a few minutes past 7:30 a.m., when we had planned to get up to begin our first full day in Ireland. However, we had failed to pushed the alarm button and probably would have slept right through breakfast had it not been for our noisy upstairs neighbor.

That morning, we casually mentioned ...

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