Day 4: Cork to Dublin

Let me first start off by saying the accident we saw on Day 3, was all over the papers and 3 people did die. Sad. Still grateful it was not us,but back to our travels......

Started off with Blarney Castle - one of the coolest places so far......




I look like a hobbit or a garden gnome. Whatever, I look extremely short. FINE! I am short, I know, but I am taller than a garden gnome.


Tried going to the Swiss Cottage in Cahir, but it was closed for 2007......could not even get near it to take a photo. Sad. But I guess, it probably isn't all that cool anyways.


Since we were in Cahir we stopped by the Cahir Castle. Did not go inside, but did take a few photos.....and we did have a nice picnic (more peanut butter sandwiches, yes)!



Rock of Cashel
Rather disappointing to be honest. For all the hype it gets in tour books and by people I know who have been there, it really is nothing much, and maybe it is due to seeing Cahir and Blarney on the same day that just made me not care at all about this. Although the Cathedral was awesome and it is rather impressive from the street.




We then were tired and decide to drive towards Dublin and if we saw something, we would have stopped potentially. However, we were all tired and other than a stop at an American-style truck stop (in a random, extremely small town), we just headed into Dublin. We arrived in Dublin around 17:30, which proved to be a rather horrific time. Not only was it rush hour, we did not have a good map, nor did we have any idea where we were really going. By about 18:30, I decided, I hated this town. We drove aimlessly around and around and around, crazy one-way streets, or two-way streets that you could not turn right on. It was awful. Also, so far, I have seen nothing all that redeeming about this town. The river/streams or whatever, are kind of ugly. The buildings are sort of blah....nothing all that cool. Now of course, it was frustrating. Due to the traffic, not knowing where we were really going, the random one-way streets and the random cannot turn right on streets, made our journey in Dublin to find our hotel over 2 hours. 2 freakin hours!!! Yes, now, I hate this town.........we'll see if actually spending 2 days here will change my mind and find the beauty of this place.

I did enjoy my dinner last night. Non-pub food. Enjoyed some carrots and asparagus and tomato soup - all things I could live on for dinner every single…..