Clonakilty Townhouse

... 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.

Started off the day with a nice breakfast overlooking Kinsale Harbor, then off to Charles Fort. Charles Fort was one of many Irish Forts guarding the harbor of the town. It was drizzling out a little, so umbrellas were in store, but the drizzle stopped about half-way through our tour of the Fort. The fort had beautiful views of both the town of Kinsale and into the open ocean.
We then went back into ...

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 ...

... whole ring, but rather enjoyed the beautiful scenery on the way and at the beginning. The most entertaining element was having rented a GPS with the car, following its much appreciated advice on the quickest, or most direct route. It seemed regardless of which way we asked it, it tended to take us via the most back road route, mostly along roads with a large strip of grass growing down the middle with no sign of traffic anywhere ...

Champions League Final with the Parfreys (Man U. over Chelsea on penalties)
-Seamus not watching the match because he was too nervous (bet on Chelsea to hedge bets [United supporter])
-obviously match preceded by Ladbrokes, where we get screwed again
Au Brog afterewards
-Kev ...

... me Rosary...... Mick Fannings sister, meeting her in Central America sometime in November The focus of the 1st leg will be South America..... Argentina to Ecuador overland. The 2nd leg will fly Ecuador to Panama and travel from Panama to Mexico overland Then its off to New Zealand, work here for a while to fund to following trip onto Australia and will be on the return home after that.

... un peu de temps avec des amis, puis nous sommes partis faire du kayak. De la plage à Trabolgan jusqu'à Inch, on m'a dit que c'est environ 3km. Ça nous a pris 55 minutes - on s'attendait à 1h30, on a été un peu surpris! C'était vraiment hot! On avait des surf kayak, comme celui que j'ai au Canada. C'est quand même assez différent sur la mer, avec les vagues. Heureusement, je n'ai pas eu le mal de mer! Je ne sentais pas vraiment mon épaule droite - celle qui est bless ...

... et douche, un salon et une cuisine salle à manger. Ça veut dire que je peux m'asseoir sur une chaise devant une table pour manger! C'est quand même tout un exploit! J'oublie sûrement plein de détails... Ah oui, il y a une cour arrière avec un jardin auquel j'ai aussi accès. Triona a l'air bien gentille! Elle cuisinait quand je suis arrivée. Après m'avoir fait visiter, elle m'a offert de prendre le thé. J'ai accepté et elle a déposé une assiette devant moi sans même me ...

... Finally you reach the battlements, and a lovely Irish man offers to hold your legs while you kiss the stone! (I did notice he cleaned it first). So I lay down and hold the bars, upside down - and the man kept telling me to go lower!! I swear my bum left the battlements, before I could kiss the stone - and then he tell you to hold there while Justin takes a photo!! In the end it is quite easy, just a bit further than I thought - and then Justin has a go and rekon's he barley had ...

... this is going? Five minutes later, I realize that my bag is leaking. I remember the water bottle. I remember my camera. Camera + water = -Camera. I pull it out. It's dripping. This would not be so upsetting if this was my old camera as it was time for a new one anyway. But this is my brand new, birthday present camera that I am attached to. I arrive at the station and get on my train as fast as possible. I pull everything out to dry and spend the next fifteen minutes ...