Cork Ireland!

Our hosts were very kind at the Belvedere.  Breakfast will be served from 7:30-10:00 am.  Our room was very cozy and this place was really cool.

Double room with an ensuite

We arrived for breakfast to a mostly empty room but soon other guest arrived.  I met a couple women that were just finishing their Ireland holiday and were returning to New Jersey.

For breakfast we chose the full Irish breakfast.  When it arrived it was a huge plate of a lot of things I had never seen.  Before our breakfast arrived we had already enjoyed fruit, breads, and cheeses.  The full Irish breakfast is:  eggs, bacon, black & white pudding, sausage, potatoes, tomatoes and mushrooms!  The meat left a bit to be desired!  The bacon was actually two slices of ham. The pudding was some kind of sausage but was very pungent. (We won’t be getting that again.) The sausage was what I expected, breakfast links with very little flavor.  The eggs we good and the half tomato was pretty regular!  Tomorrow at our new B&B I ordered oatmeal!

After breakfast was done we loaded up the car, punched an ATM in the GPS and headed out.  Getting phone service here is going to be costly at $10 a day but we needed it the past two days to navigate.  It’s just money anyway and Paul is out working so I can live in the style to which I’m accustomed.

We got Euros!

It took us two try’s and several wrong turns but we finally found city center, got money and found the Site Seeing bus.  For €13.00 euros they will drive us around and for an additional €15.00 our car is safely parked in a garage, which at the end of the day we found the garage but forgot where the entrance was!  Oops,  just 1,000 extra steps around the block and we remembered!

Now for the tour!

Cork City Tours

 

Ringing the bells

 

 

 

 

 

Blarney Castle

 

Then is always the cool personnel art

A great tour and yes we kissed the Blarney Stone!

 

The wagons below were on display at the Blarney Castle but then we saw some real life ( I think) Gypses!

Gypse wagons

Real gypsys

 

Now time to get to our next B & B that is 70 miles away!  The roads are too narrow here and several times I have had to remind Cindy to move to the center but today she stayed on the left side and made many turns to the right side of the road!

We made it to Ard Na Coille B&B by about 7:00 and got settled in. We are preparing for tomorrow which will be our first day on the Dingle Trail.

 

 

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