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We go back to the B & B to rest up for dinner. We are pretty

worn down and ready to go home. We go to dinner at the Clare

Inn. We hope to have a dinner that compares with the lunch

we had there earlier in our trip. Unfortunately that is not the

case. We have another inferior meal. Guess Joe’s great meal

really spoiled us totally for anything else. The price is £16 plus

10% service charge and our waitress let us know that she

wouldn’t be getting any of the 10%. Since the meal was nothing
special for the price, we aren’t very sympathetic but did leave

£2 on the table for her.

I unzip and expand my bag one more notch to get the wool

throw I’d purchased to fit. I plan to check my bags in O’Hare

and take only my carryon bag to M’s condo in Chicago. I didn’t
know at the time that wasn’t going to work out.

I hesitate to mention it to M but I feel something is wrong with

our host and hostess who seem suddenly rather cold to us. I
finally bring up the subject and M agrees wholeheartedly. I say

that I don’t usually fret about other people’s moods but there is
such a drastic change in their demeanor that we both are

puzzled. After a lengthy discussion about what we could have

done to offend them, ranging from being IRA members to not

paying enough for our local phone calls or not buying anything

at the daughter’s little store, we go to bed.

Day 14 Fly Back to Chicago and Home – June

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Another cloudy day but we didn’t even care. We dress and eat

yet another sausage and “rasher” of bacon breakfast. Our host

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