Annestown House Tramore

... disagree, and without a word of rebuttal, she's off to the corner store to pick up some pudding.

Lonely Planet describes black and white pudding as being 'like meatloaf, but sausage shaped, cut into discs and fried'. Like many LP descriptions, it is woefully inadequate, for a food that is as integral to Irish cuisine as potatoes and Guinness. Black and white sausage is two sausages, often sold as a pair. The white pudding is mainly made up of pork meat and oats ...

... roads in Ireland are miniature versions of the variety we have in Canada, but the speed limits don't reflect this. We clipped along, squeezed between rock walls and oncoming traffic.

"The side mirrors on the car fold in if they're hit" Michelle informed me.
That was immensely reassuring.

We arrived home in record time, Michelle threw together a proper feast, and I was in bed by 8.

... Golf). Personally, it was mildly disspointing not being able to see it all being made. However, the tourist info lady said that some people are much more than mildly dissapointed: they show up expecting the tour, and when they find out that it is no longer being offered, they burst out in tears, crying that it was supposed to be the hilight of their time in Ireland! I know this sounds a little mean, but I find this just a tiny bit sad!

Sean

... was a bit dissappointing just a city so it was just a picture with the city sign!! lol Went through many other smaller places on tight, winding roads, Emily, Knocklong, Elton, Killmallock, Mallow and finally Killanery... I was a very tired after driving all day!!

We stayed in the Darby O'gills hotel about 2kms out of town, it was quite cheap, comfortable and very Irish.. the locals in the front bar stopped to have a chat. Dinner at Macs and sleep!!!

salut tout le monde notre voyage continue .c'est vraiment beau les paysages sont magnifique et la temperatureaussi.il fait soleil depuis notre arrive. ont est maintenant rendu a cork dans le sud ouest de l'irlande.on est dans une tres belle auberge situer devant un grand parc ...

... de pecheur avec une belle plage on va en profiter et cette apres midi on va visiter un usine de cristal on as bien hate .pour la conduite on s'abitue mais on doit etre tres attentif heureusement lyly est bonne copilote et les distance a parcourir chaque jour sont courte.ce soir on va coucher dans un vieux chateau a 47km d'ici .
ps:on as tous pour etre bien de la guinness et du cafe tim hortons. a bientot. lyly et sophie xxx

... crystal factory has gone out of business - bought by Bank of America which is going to send manufacturing to someplace like Texas for sure...sad, but we'll see what's left tomorrow.

Then back to Dublin...Guinness Factory Tour and then sadly back to the US.

Now for Sister Carolyn - Darnit Katie has all the fun! I ate dinner with a window salesperson from Wisconsin. Turns out he sells Kolbe and Kolbe windows. Which we have in our house. I hate them ...

Today we got up early and after a breakfast of scones and tea, we piled into the car for a trip to Ardmore, which is in County Waterford. Now, we wanted to go to Ardmore because we had read a series of books by Nora Roberts that was set in Ardmore. After a drive of about 3 hours, we reached the tiny seaside town, and while the view was lovely, and it was ...

... the Monastic city. The weather was still holding out for us, which was lovely. It was unfortunate that there were plenty of tour buses that had make there way there so we waded our way through the flocks of tourists (obviously that does not include us...). We did manage to zig and zag our way through the hoards and made our way to the upper lake, which was very peaceful and calm and surrounded by the Wicklow mountains and plenty of ...

... turn across from Orpen's Pub". With directions like this, it's so amazing I was never lost. Part way up the hill, I thought I'd check my next few direction steps, so I pulled over to the side of the road at an intersection, and a man pulling up to the stop sign asked if I was alright. After telling him where I was off to, he said "Just up the hill, go left then right right away." It's like he wrote the Cycling Ireland book ...