Fennessy's Hotel Clonmel

... 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 ...

I was really hoping, as I always do, to have a vacant seat next to mine on the flight. My hopes were dashed at the last moment when a gangly British man found his seat next to mine. He wedged himself in; all elbows and knees. We didn't exchange any words until feeding time, which is when I usually choose to voice my thoughts on the provided cuisine.

"It looks like they've outdone ...

... around the town, taking in the historical cathedral, Reginals tower (viking built), peoples park and the old city wall. Then we headed off across to Kilanery. We stopped off at the Waterfor Crystal visitors centre.. just some lovely crystal here, famous for their sporting trophies, ie Wimbleton and golf and also the Ashes!

We drove thought some lovely country side and towns such as Currich-on-Suir and stopped at Cahir to have a look at their castle ...

... c'est tres beau et relaxant . demain on vas faire un tour guide en autobus et apres on vas prendre l'auto pour aller se promener dans les campagnes. a bientot on vous donne d'autre nouvelle plus tard ps;ici c'est le temps des fraise pis y sont bonne en crisse . lylyet sophie

... who ate liverworst for lunch I decided NOT to kiss the thing. I could not be considered a chicken so I bent over and let the dirty old man molest me to kiss the darn wall. He kept pushing me further down and telling me - Com'on get down there fer'ther...I started to laugh and pulled myself up and he was laughing and I said You are horrible! He laughed and said - that's what she said last night! Dirty old Irish man - he was great!

We're in Waterford tonight ...

... We waited a bit for our luggage, then went to get our rental car. We were given a little Opel Astra, stick-shift, no frills. After loading the luggage, we got in to begin the trip when I found that the “accessory socket” wasn’t working and wouldn’t power the GPS. We were then able to get a Ford Focus with an automatic transmission at no extra charge. That has made John’s job easier!

We stopped in Bunratty for an extremely ...

... sleep on the overnight flight...despite all sorts of contortions.
252: American dollars it cost to rent a very small, manual transmission Hyundai in Dublin for a day and a half.
3: Hours spent driving the Irish countryside today.
3: Hours during the drive spent watching in awe of how freakin' green and beautiful it is here. Seriously, what you have seen in movies and ...

... top of the tower like in a fairy tale. There is way too much about this place to write here without simply copying our guide book and elaborating. If you ever visit Ireland, make sure to stop here! NOTE: As we were viewing the original St. Patrick's Cross our camera batteries ran out. It was some time before we got anymore pictures.

... I had never before imagined Ireland as the place to go for a beach holiday, but at that moment all I wanted to do was wade through the water and explore the small cliffs further out towards a grassy headland. It was just a pity that I hadn’t even given a thought to packing my bathers.

We got back in the car and headed inland to Waterford and got some lunch from a supermarket, then hunted around for some time for a picnic area, park or ...

... The Viking exhibit, who were the founders of Waterford, is a revelation and contains many exquisite carvings in bone. Over 70 Viking houses were excavated in the city, and a short video watched from the rocking benches of a pretend ship paints an imaginative picture of these Viking settlers' and seafarers' lives. A good collection of pottery wine jugs from southwest France pieces of black glazed Waterford pottery, Norman arrowheads, horseshoes and household ...