May 14 - Driving to Belfast We figured that today would be a non-descript travelling day from here in Kilkenny to Belfast. That was until we opened our bedroom door today to find Vic's ashamed-looking face. He'd accidentally just locked the car keys in the car! Well, that's something both Gerald and I have done in the past just not with a rental...

Today I took the train down to Kilkenny, the town that every tour book calls the Medieval town of Ireland. The ride took about 2 hours from Dublin...lots of green farmlands, but more of an emerald (...hence the nickname for Ireland), than a foresty green that we see in the Northwest. The weather is unpredictable, rain off and on, but humid. I've...