Day 4: Sat 31 Aug - Dublin
As we had had a pretty full day yesterday, I slept better and felt more alive when I got up. We all had an early breakfast (0700 h) as Jane had to be at CCD at by 0830 for her meetings. I went in with Jane, while Sylvain and Sadie went off on another tour, and found the Press Room and got my little flag to put on my name tag. I came home on my own via City and had a little nanna nap (I think the travelling backwards on the Tram is playing havoc with me), then did some washing and some sorting out of papers, etc. Tried to not eat too much during the day as we had a Reception and a Dinner to attend that night. The farewell reception was for Henri Manasse and was a typical affair with finger food and drinks, speeches and replies. Met up with a few other non MEPS personnel and had a bit of a chat. Stayed for a while as dinner didn’t start until 2000. After the reception we took a slow walk to the Council Dinner venue but were still early so decided to check out the T...