Blarney Woollen Mills

... the Visitor's Centre, with its samples of the best of Waterford Crystal. We drove on to Blarney, and went to the (apparently world-famous) Blarney Woollen Mills.  It must have been good, because we spent just under 100 euros on gifts and ...

... whose Irish accent was of course worsened by the beer he had been in there drinking, classic. We stayed at the Blarney Woollen Mills hotel and it was the first real hotel we've stayed at since we started our trip; amazingly comfy bed and the ...

... entitled to a cut one day.  Sadly this is highly unlikely.  From Waterford we continued on the road and reached Blarney by late afternoon.  We wandered the few streets of the small but highly touristed village and found a traditional pub to ...

... with Neil about the All Blacks.  Apparently Doug Howlett was up there kissing the stone last week. We go back to the Blarney Woollen Mills because I can't have Neil doing shopping there, and me miss out.  So I try on two dresses and one is ...

... - Sunday Sunday was composed of a steady drive back to Dublin via Limerick on the N7. With a stopover at the Blarney Woollen Mills near Limerick. Though beautiful, the woolen clothes really are quite expensive. Further on we took a scenic detour ...

... Onto Blarney Castle and kissed the blarney stone, so I should have the gift of the gab, and then shopped at the woollen mills. Kilarney was next were we rode jaunting carts past Muckross Abbey and Muckross house, it was beautiful. We celebrated ...