A bit of follow up to a previous post on our Best of Ireland Small Groups tour.
The day before yesterday the tour stared with the reception dinner in the Westin Hotel in Dublin. The dinner was quite nice and all the travelers on the tour seemed very nice and all the typical Tauck demographic.
Yesterday was our first touring day. We toured St Patricks Cathedral and Dublin Castle. We also toured the city on the bus. The afternoon was a free afternoon to do what we wanted.
I started to feel a bit out of sorts in the afternoon with a minor sore throat and a slight fever with some body aches. We brought some at home Covid tests with us and I decided to test myself. You can probably fill in the blanks from here! 
I tested positive for Covid. Thankfully my wife was negative. Both of us are double vaccinated and double boosted. I guess that didn’t protect me. We were both fairly diligent in our mask wearing. I most likely got infected on the plane or at the Newark airport or Dublin airport.
Mask wearing in Ireland right now is almost non existent. The mask wearing we encountered at the airports and on the planes was spotty at best.
Anyway what I hoped would be a few on tour posts and a trip review at the end will not happen. Our tour began and ended on day one.
We do have the Tauck Guest Protection for this tour but we did book our own air.
I know some other forum readers have had similar issues so I would welcome any comments.
Signing off from our ~~Hotel Room~~ Prison Room at the Westin.
