The White House Kinsale
Pearse Street and The Glen Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland
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The best driving yet!
We sadly left Dingle this morning at 9:30 am. We got into Kinsale at 12:40 after stopping for coffee in a small town called Macroom. Bill drove like a pro! We got checked into the hotel (The White House...) which has us assigned to a room overlooking the street that goes straight to the harbor.
It is now 9:55 pm and we're listening to the …
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Stung by a Nettle
... of direction I figured it was a good idea). Claire and I started to browse around some of the stores, but considering the awesome weather today Garry suggested a few of us drive to Kinsale and have a look around. Despite what I was expecting, the weather here is pretty good. Today the sun was shining and it was quite warm. The only thing is it gets quite cold at night so I have had the heat on ...
Ghosts, stories and a pint in Kinsale
... said castle….finally at mile 15 Ginger asked a homeowner on the side of the road and appears e just passed the turn off point. Backtracking a few miles, we found the turn off and started to second guess the whole thing again because we did not see squat. It was also getting late – 1230-m at this point. Finally se saw it in the distance and had to find the front house as there were no signs.
Well, we turned into ...
Black Pudding, Guns & Cows
... too friendly but I guess that is just part of the job. My anxiety had me panicking a bit, even more so when I spotted a military Hummer (like the ones in the Hurt Locker). I asked a friendly looking local if they knew what this was all about, apparently it's normal for this to happen here. In Ireland the police officers don't carry guns, so when the banks are receiving or transferring money the IRA (maybe not the IRA, but something along ...
Well we survived the night
... to arrive as well, we decided to walk down to the actual bus station and see what was happening. Along the way we bought lunch from the supermarket and then journeyed on to the bus station. Here we learned that all busses to Blarney were cancelled due to the weather. Stupid snow has caused us to miss another place that we really wanted to visit here in Ireland. The busses may be back tomorrow, we'll have to wait and see, but for now we need to find something else to ...



