Travel Blogs from Kinsale, Ireland

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Overnight with Shielagh and Dennis, Kinsale, Ireland travel blog

Overnight with Shielagh and Dennis

A travel blog entry by jennykelly

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As night doesn't actually fall until about 10pm here we have plenty of time to look for overnight stops. We arrived at Kinsale with no room at any inn so we travelled along the coast to a great looking spot near a dairy farm. Lou checked with Shielagh and ...

Kinsale, Kinsale, Ireland travel blog

Kinsale

A travel blog entry by meganandkevin

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... a nice break on our drive and apparently a popular place of escape for people from the cities in southern Ireland (see pictures). OK Kinsale.  Our B&B is situated along the gorgeous coastal highway isolated from just about everything but the ...

Day 3 & 4 - Co: COR, Kinsale, Ireland travel blog

Day 3 & 4 - Co: COR

A travel blog entry by neason

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... travel 50km at 80km/h to get to the nearest mechanic, unfortunately it was a sunday which, in ireland, means absolutely nothing is open! so we headed for kinsale and hoped for the best. about halfway there we passed a sign warning us to slow down because ...

Rain, Rain, Rain, and a Fort., Kinsale, Ireland travel blog

Rain, Rain, Rain, and a Fort.

A travel blog entry by ckaczma

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More to come soon. Sorry for the ...

How Ireland works, Kinsale, Ireland travel blog

How Ireland works

A travel blog entry by bsuarez

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... highway. So instead I just turned the radio station over to talk radio where they were talking about Eurovision, women's rights in Ireland, pub guidelines and birth control. It was a nice introduction to Irish culture. As I tried to follow google maps, I ...

Friends, whiskey, and Fishy Fishy, Kinsale, Ireland travel blog

Friends, whiskey, and Fishy Fishy

A travel blog entry by rovingwerners

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... he’s Patrick. He was a delight, and we enjoyed sharing our time with him. Our next and final stop for the day was Kinsale. We had stopped there on our last trip and liked it, so I booked us in at the Rivermount House B&B. Claire ...

Aifric...Kinsale Ireland to Mogan Gran Canary., Kinsale, Ireland travel blog

Aifric...Kinsale Ireland to Mogan Gran Canary.

A travel blog entry by cluainfia

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... it. She said she would put her name down for the return trip in April. Sat 1st October. Catherine and myself travelled to Kinsale on Saturday morning the 1st Oct.and checked into the Sail Ireland Charter office. We met Mike and Susan Loughnane and I had ...

The Boatmen of Kinsale, Kinsale, Ireland travel blog

The Boatmen of Kinsale

A travel blog entry by lsteen

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... find poems and quotes everywhere you go, all written by the multitude of famous writers, poets and philosophers who are claimed by Ireland.  I will sign off now but I will leave you with a beautiful poem Linda and I read yesterday by the harbor ...

Fishy, Kinsale, Ireland travel blog

Fishy

A travel blog entry by leann-robyn

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... Kinsale we had lunch at Fishy Fishy which has been continuously recommended to us by countless people since we arrived in Ireland. Fishy Fishy has rightfully earned its good reputation. Their fish pie was seriously amazing. Our high expectations for the ...

Some photos, Kinsale, Ireland travel blog

Some photos

A travel blog entry by lsteen

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... pictures.  The comments are brief because it took so long to upload them, I didn't want to hog the computer here at our guesthouse - The Old Presbytery - in Kinsale.  Hope you enjoy them.  Cathy is going to write the next update.  ...

Reserved a ferry, train to Cork, bus to Kinsale, Kinsale, Ireland travel blog

Reserved a ferry, train to Cork, bus to Kinsale

A travel blog entry by jojorockstar

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... and headed across the river and uphill to my hostel. I checked in and went immediately to the bus station to head down to Kinsale for dinner. I got there about 5 to find that very little was open other than restaurants. There didn't seem to be many pubs ...

To Kinsale during a downpour, Kinsale, Ireland travel blog

To Kinsale during a downpour

A travel blog entry by travelbee

... down so much that some of the roads turned into rivers and we were unable to cross.  Upon getting to our hotel in Kinsale (still wet), there was a wedding reception in the lobby with a band.  We couldnt even hear what the front desk people were ...

Historical Kinsale, Kinsale, Ireland travel blog

Historical Kinsale

A travel blog entry by hughrobins

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Our first exposure to bumper-to-bumper traffic was surely Kinsale. Perfect May weather brought throngs to this ancient harbour. Whether we were heading east or west we had to drive through the town not that we minded in the ...

Kinsale, Kinsale, Ireland travel blog

Kinsale

A travel blog entry by jeronimo

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Kinsale, Kinsale, Ireland travel blog

Kinsale

A travel blog entry by posullivan09

again, i'm horrible at keeping up with this!! ah, well lets backtrack a few weeks ago, we went to Kinsale. it was absolutely BEAUTIFUL. the weather was great, nice and sunny.  when we got there, the tide was out and there was a boat kinda stranded on ...

Home Again!, Kinsale, Ireland travel blog

Home Again!

A travel blog entry by hughrobins

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After several day trips, we opted to stay closer to Ballinspittle for more than a day. There is plenty to see and do in Kinsale. Walking is best as the traffic is fierce. So many cars, so may ...

Kinsale Harbor with Sinead, Kinsale, Ireland travel blog

Kinsale Harbor with Sinead

A travel blog entry by nansplanet

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On Tuesday Night Sinead met me at the hotel and we drove to Kinsale harbor to roam and explore some coastal parts.  Sinead proved to be the most amazing tour guide, I learned more about Ireland that week from her stories and many amusing ...

Kinsale, Kinsale, Ireland travel blog

Kinsale

A travel blog entry by thehills

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... 've been better had it not been for the intense hunger and need to pee, with the pay toilets closed Sundays. Back in Kinsale we used a toilet, then had the best Indian food ever.  We walked to the Spaniard, where the live music finally included a ...

Charles Fort in Kinsale, Kinsale, Ireland travel blog

Charles Fort in Kinsale

A travel blog entry by thehills

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We woke up in Kinsale and the aspartame-sweet Gallery B&B in the dollhouse-cute town of Kinsale.  Really.  It won silver medal in a "Tidy Towns" contest and that describes it to a T.    Think touristy, overpriced West Coast beach ...

Day 5- Ireland Trip, Kinsale, Ireland travel blog

Day 5- Ireland Trip

A travel blog entry by isaacworld

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... ;dive to the sleepy town of Kinsale. Kinsale is more a tourist place then anything but it has its fair share of history.In Kinsale we ate supper at a pub called Murphy's where we had curry, chicken wings, and seafood chowder. We decided to walk off ...

Picturesque, Kinsale, Kinsale, Ireland travel blog

Picturesque, Kinsale

A travel blog entry by mattnbo

A beautiful small town on the ...

Nami 2... Kinsale Co Cork., Kinsale Co Cork, Ireland travel blog

Nami 2... Kinsale Co Cork.

A travel blog entry by cluainfia

... Mike She suggested to me that I should 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 ...

Kinsale, Kinsale, Ireland travel blog

Kinsale

A travel blog entry by jeff1fla

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Kinsale is my favorite place in Ireland. A colorful sailing town built along the water and up a ...

The Burrens and the Ring of Kerry, Kinsale, Ireland travel blog

The Burrens and the Ring of Kerry

A travel blog entry by revelatorart

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Hiya! I know it's been a few days since I had chance to email...we are in Kinsale, Ireland right now...it's in the south near the water (if you have a map to look at you can see that it's close to Cork)....this is a lovely little artist town (tiny ...

Over to Ireland and then to the beach..., Kinsale,  Ireland travel blog

Over to Ireland and then to the beach...

A travel blog entry by terrycj

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... the caption "come to the UK it's summer here", the picture is of people in raincoats and umbrellas. We've made to Ireland and the weather ... well ... I guess the weather is the reason why everything is so green here. According to the local radio the ...

Spectacular Scenery, Fascinating Antiquities, Kinsale, Ireland travel blog

Spectacular Scenery, Fascinating Antiquities

A travel blog entry by spritzos

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  The sun came out awhile after we left Kinsale for Kenmare.  The scenery was lovely                     We watched several sailing yachts and small boats ...

Kinsale, Kinsale, Ireland travel blog

Kinsale

A travel blog entry by trmestre

wonderfull ...

Touring Around, Kinsale, Ireland travel blog

Touring Around

A travel blog entry by jennsummer2011

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... this morning and caught the bus on campus and headed 25 km south of Cork to KinsaleKinsale has quite a small population (approx. 2200) and was voted Ireland's first best fair trade town a few years ago.  The first weekend here we took a ...

Julie Bryn..Mogan Gran Canary to Kinsale Ireland., Kinsale, Ireland travel blog

Julie Bryn..Mogan Gran Canary to Kinsale Ireland.

A travel blog entry by cluainfia

... · It was worthwhile trip, as it isn't often a person gets a chance to sail to some of the Atlantic Islands and then back to Ireland. · The learning curve was steep. I would say I was up for the trip and didn't find it too difficult even though it took ...

A walk to Ballinspittle, Balinspittle County Cork, Ireland travel blog

A walk to Ballinspittle

A travel blog entry by jkrakauer

Took a walk from home to and from balinspittle. Nice day and the weather was clear. Took the train to Fota Island. It is a animal conservation area in which you see birds and animals both that are found locally and brought to the park. Animals brought in ...

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