Perryville House Hotel Kinsale

... there having circumnavigated the world by April 2011. My plan is to sail from St Lucia through Panama Canal, down to Equator and on to the Galapagos Islands which will take up the the end of February, I am hopeful that I will be able to continue to the Marquesa Islands and on to Tahiti which would bring me to the end of April - then home.<br><br>My skipper Stephen has his own blog http://blog.mailasail.com/alady

Our second day of the trip led us to Cork, Ireland. First the bus<br>system in Ireland is wonderful. They were comfortable, spacious, and<br>even had WI-FI. They will take you anywhere you need to go. The bus ride was about 4 hours. Longer than we expected but seeing as we woke up at 5:30 am after our pub crawl this seemed to work out just fine for us. <br><br>Cork is a beautiful town that sits on a hill and looks out over the river. It isn ...

The day we arrived in Ireland was a time of fulfillment &amp; excitement. We landed in Dublin, &amp; managed to hall 2 bike boxes, 2 big backpacks, a 50lbs camping bag, &amp; 2 carry-on's across the country to County Cork in the far south. We just barely made it to Kinsale's only Hostel by sundown. There we stayed for a few days, scoping out our new neighborhood, and picking up a sense of the Irish culture we had just delved into.  For the following 2 weeks we moved into a shared house ...

... une place où rester. Et éventuellement, je vais avoir un nouvel emploi, des nouveaux voisins, je vais pouvoir faire mon épicerie n'importe quel jour de la semaine, pas seulement quand j'ai congé, je vais avoir accès à Internet plus facilement, je vais pouvoir aller au cinéma, dans des musées, visiter des trucs, je vais pouvoir prendre l'autobus pour aller visiter les environs de Cork parce que Dieu sait ...

... chose pour mardi, si je me sentais toujours pas bien. Lundi: Mon jour de "congé". J'ai dormi toute la journée. Je me suis levée seulement pour aller aux toilettes, manger et prendre mes médicaments. Le mal de tête était toujours le même, le mal de coeur aussi, les troubles de bision je ne sais pas parce que je n'ai pas vraiment ouvert les yeux, que le gauche et encore seulement à moitié en portant des lunettes de soleil. Je crois que pendant la journée, j'ai réussi ...

The ability to fly directly from Cork was a major deciding factor in keeping this trip affordable. All we had to do was walk three minutes to the bus terminal at Parnell Place and take a 15-minute bus ride out to the airport. Check-in was quick and easy, apparently not so many people flying out this close to Christmas. Still, we did manage to bump into some friends in the airport and what do you know, they were heading for Rome...on the same flight.

... fry up for breakfast; Peter was enjoying the cooking and certainly wasn't going to let us go hungry. Our daily run was 130nm. I took the thermals off to day as we were getting closer to our destination and the day was nice and warm. We had a chicken dinner with peppers and ginger and it was very tasty and Neill finished off with one of his jokes about Adam and Eve and God telling him that she would cost him an arm and leg. Oh it's great to have a captive audience. We ...

... whose job it is to hold on to the dumb tourists was laughing so much because he takes a leak on the Blarney Stone whenever none of them are around. I know I&#8217;d be tempted to. Perhaps a career in mass-tourism just isn&#8217;t the career sea-change I&#8217;m best suited to. <br><br>To try and alleviate the weekend difficulties we&#8217;d had in finding a B&amp;B the night before, Michael and Thelma at Amberleigh House had onward-booked ...

... just beyond us sat the Rock of Cashel, and after eating we forced Nanna to struggle up the short but still fairly steep path to its entrance only to decide that we really didn&#8217;t want to go and have a look inside the twelfth century fortress, chapel, cathedral and tower after all. <br><br>The only disadvantage of not having any real itinerary or accommodation booked for this whole trip meant that once the weekend rolled around it was always going ...

... a bit...I should fill you in on the past few days since I last wrote. Monday night we went to a pub in Galway that has live traditional Irish music playing every night. Okay...can I just say that this was one of those moments where I needed someone to pinch me cuz it seemed like I was in a dream of a movie or something...it was so cool! The pub was packed with revelers drinking Guinness as the 3 men in the corner played their reels and jigs (an accordian ...