Collins B&B Waterlands Kinsale

A month since my last posting and less than a month to go. My own preparations are almost complete for my departure on 2 January 2010.

Skipper Stephen Hyde and crew made a great passage across the Atlantic on 'A Lady' they departed Grand Canaria on 22 ...

... the graveyard and sketched it while the sun went down. creepy? alex thought so, i wasn't as creeped out. for dinner that night we went to the grocery store and took advantage of the kitchen kinlay house had and made some sweet dinner...noodles and tofuuu. a nice relaxing day and getting some sketch on after a pretty unproductive dublin.

... studying done on her Natural health course. Though, throughout each day and after 4, our house turned into a bit of a drop in centre for friends. We just happedned to be on located along a convinient pathway from school to town. So more than not, someone was around with us.

As for school... alot can be said. What we learned in this last year is more valuable than anything I could imagine learning at this point in my life. And among the specifics of how ...

... church, named St Coleman's Church, and it was quite a hike. The church was beautiful inside and out. We next strolled around the town and met some quirky old Irish men. One actually turned out to be the assistant mayor. He ran over to the little general store to get a brochure with his picture in it just to prove it to us. We browsed some of the shops and then decided to head back to Kinsale for the night.

Woke up this morning to pretty significant rainfall. Had a pleasant breakfast in the hotel and a bit of a conversation with the owners, since there were hardly any people in the dining room. We checked out and I loaded all of the luggage into the car. We also had to take care of a toll that our car went through in Dublin. When you go through a toll, you are given a number to call and you must provide credit card info in order to pay your toll. That took a ...

... Killkenny City, Jameson Distillery (volunteer at the end for the whiskey tasting) websites: www.blarneycastle.ie www.blarney.com www.cashel.ie www.oldjamesondistillery.com search other sites at: www.discoverireland.ie

... updates and do the groceries. So "day off" doesn't mean "resting" and will probably never be during my trip. Since I work 6 days a week, on my "day off" I have to go do the groceries in Midleton (or maybe Cork this week) and to let you know what's going on on the Emerald Island. If I don't write for more than 2 weeks, it simply means I decided to stay in bed for my "day off" (and it then loses its brackets). That's all for today! It's already almost 8p.m. here, I'm ...

... in their large side entry. No problem. Quiet spot, all slept well and woke to the mist all over the place and could hardly see a meter ahead of us. After a cup of tea with Shielagh and the kids, and the low down on where best to go next, we gave them a little koala each and set off for The Ring of Kerry.

... some amazing coastline, complete with rugged cliffs and huge waves, on the way. The Cliffs were really cool but just the drive to see them was well-worth it. On Tuesday we headed up to Connemara, with no particular destination in mind...far out, there's some creepy landscapes up that way! Similar to the Desert Rd in NZ, really barren with huge, scary rocky mountains here and there but miles and miles of it..and people are actually living ...

... try and get some rest as it was going to be a long haul against the wind to Kinsale.I wasn't too keen to go below and go to bed but said I would try it. Conditions were rough enough and seasickness had set in with some of the crew so the blue bucket was in great demand. I wasn't feeling great myself and thought if I went into the sack I would end up getting sick also. Choryna had ...