Dempsey's Hostel 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.

... stress and flex your creativity, while finding ways to be productive in everyday situations. I’m not quite sure how to explain it any more in writing, but I really feel like this one will stick with me – so I thought I’d share it.

We finished up college in Mid May, and moved out of our cottage then. We house sat a a friends for 2 weeks, then moved into our current home, Pearl Cottage. It is located along a gorgious 3 km walk from the ...

... and toured the Desmond Castle, which was a really small castle in town, really just the house of some nobles. This castle did have an old jail, though, that held immigrant prisoners, especially American merchant sailors who may have been labeled as pirates. We then walked up to Multrose Church in town, but it was not open.
We decided to drive to Cobh, a small fishing town about 30 minutes away ...

... a line, but it went quick. I did kiss the stone, but mom didn't because she didn't want to get on her back to have to do it. We then went over to the Blarney House and walked the grounds. For lunch, we ate a little Irish tavern in the town right outside the Castle.
Our next stop was the beautiful St Finbarre's Church in Cork. I wanted mom to see some of the amazing European churches and this was great example. At first, we thought it was closed ...

... more wrong turns and u-turns) we decide we've had enough of Cork and head to our next stop - Cobh. Cobh sits on a large island in Cork harbor. Since our ancestry is Irish - we learned there's a good chance that this town was the last Irish soil our ancestors had under their feet. Cobh was the major port of Irish emigration in the 19th century. We checked out the Heritage Center where we learned about Anne Moore and her 2 younger brothers. She was 15 and trying to get to ...

... HONEY&CLOVER! *angel face* À part de ça, il ne se passe pas grand-chose de fabuleux en ce moment. Les allergies, toujours les allergies! J'ai hâte de pouvoir aller faire une vraie épicerie... Mon réfrigérateur est presque vide et ils n'ont pas beaucoup de variété ici. Pain, fromage, pommes, viandes froides, muffins, oeufs... Ça commence à tourner en rond! =P C'est un peu compliqué avoir de la viande par contre. Ça me prend au moins 1h de Midleton jusqu'à ma chambre ...

... next thing we know, the road signs have changed from kilometres per hour to miles per hour and that was it....no border crossing to speak of at all! Rather disappointed! Found ourselves in Enniskillen for the night, in a cosy cheap-as-chips motel and set off for Belfast on Wednesday morning. I was really interested to see some of the famous murals in the areas where "The Troubles" had a huge impact...and we managed to stumble across ...

... than the US. One thing I love is that at grocery stores you have to pay 15 cents for a grocery bag if you don't bring your own. That saves them thousands of bags a day that won't make there way to a landfill. Oh well I should get to the good part. Shane and Eva took me out to Kinsale where I got to get a good ribbing from the Pianist who ...

... by some dolphins and heard a Pan Pan call to Cork Coastguard, someone was in difficulty off Inishdorey; they were drifting towards some rocks. This call was cancelled later on. It was starting to get dark around 2100 hrs as we were eyeballing it around the Old Head and heading for Bullman South Cardinal. It was difficult enough to pick out the buoys with all the lights around ...