Christy'S Hotel Blarney

Blarney Blarney, County Cork, Ireland

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Birthday Kiss

A travel blog entry by leann-robyn

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... the street with a box of half eaten pie which quickly became a box of pie crumbs.

On the way home, we stumbled across a 24 hour McDonalds. Fingers still slightly sticky from our curb side pie picnic, we knew this was fate. What better time than to have our first taste of Irish McDonalds. After careful consideration, we’ve decided that McDonalds is as guiltily delicious here as it is back home.

Happy McBirthday to me,
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Kiss the Legend

A travel blog entry by jillymitch

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... br> Before climbing up the castle to kiss the stone, we crawled through two different caves, one known as the "Badger's Cave." They were fun, it felt like we were in the movie, The Goonies!
To get to the Blarney Stone, we had to climb up a very narrow, steep, winding stairwell. It was pretty scary but really cool. On the way up, you could go off into different rooms of the castle, but they were just big empty rooms with not much to ...

The Blarney Stone Speech Therapy Technique

A travel blog entry by albertine

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... lean over backwards and kiss a particular stone in order to cure his stutter. He did so, his stutter magically disappeared and his speech became quite eloquent (hence the 'Stone of Eloquence'). Now, my Speech Pathology friends and colleagues - if we had only known or been taught about this miraculous cure, we could send our clients off to Blarney and saved ourselves a lot of time and effort! Who ...

Kissed the stone

A travel blog entry by andrewjm

... There were lots of hiding places and it would be fun to play hide and seek in there. After we drove to another small town to have lunch and we were supposed to go view the ruins, but time escaped us as we were visiting with some of the people on the tour. Once we finished, we drove the the Cork area and headed back to Dublin. We checked backed into Paddy's Palace and then went to Tesco to buy some food to cook. We ate pasta and ...

Beautiful Cork

A travel blog entry by kring715

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... dinner with Hailey. We walked around the city center for a while to see if we could find a place where we could sit outside because it was such a nice day. We found this little pub and got Irish stew, it was delicious! That was pretty much the end of the day for us and we headed back to UL shortly after we ate. It was a really long weekend, but I had so much fun and I'm really looking forward to doing a few more touristy things like ...