an existential keekah

I’m still an Ireland – our last B&B did not have wireless, so I’m a bit behind in posting… the next two posts will be post-dated since I couldn’t post them until Thursday…

After our nap yesterday, we went back into the town of Kilkenny for dinner. We ate at a little pub and listened to, of all things, 80′s love songs. We sat and drank for about an hour but we were still exhausted… so we went back to our B&B and went to sleep. And that was the best sleep I had since we left! We woke up refreshed in the morning, packed our bags into the car, and headed back into Kilkenny to walk around since we were spending the day in Kilkenny.

We wanted to take the Kilkenny Castle tour, since the Castle ruins in Bushmills were closed when we were in town. The tour in Kilkenny was supposed to start at 10am… however, when we got there – the castle was closed until 1pm – which was too late for us to take the tour as we wanted to be on the road around then. Undaunted, we did a walking tour of the grounds and took as many pictures as we could and then did a walking tour of the town. It was a cute little town, busy and bustling with locals and tourists like us.

We stopped for coffee at a local cafe and chatted with some visitors from another town – and it was a lively discussion about the state of the economy, Bush, Obama and driving. They were a lovely couple and J got some good tips on how to drive through the roundabouts (something he and I had debated fiercely while driving ). We ate lunch at a pub right in the center of town before hitting the road to Kinsale.

The drives in between the towns we visited were filled with gorgeous, green-filled landscapes that took my breath away. The rain came while we were driving mostly, leaving the sun to break through at every stop we made (our hostess at each place greeted us by saying, “you’ve brought the sun with you) so we were pretty lucky on the rain front. Although, to be honest, I didn’t mind the rain or the chill at all.

We arrived in Kinsale, which is a tiny town sitting on the cusp of a harbor. Our B&B was beautiful – and the subject of tomorrow’s post.

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