The irish accent is proving a challenge
Trip Start
Sep 02, 2010
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Trip End
Nov 02, 2010
Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland
Thursday, September 16, 2010
we start the day early to get to Blarney Castle before the coach tours arrive. We're first into the Castle and up to the top to kiss the Blarney Stone. The fellows up the top who do the chiropractic manoeuvres on you so you can bend over backwards to kiss the stone had a good natter 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 lovely.
we drive to killarney and the weather is closing in again. we take a lake tour which is lovely. Tomorrow we will go on the Gap of Dunloe tour which is bus, then horse trap, then boat through some very picturesque national park.
Off to dinner shortly, best get my a into gear.
A lovely day out today (the rain has gone .... yay). Bused to Kate Kearney's Cottage to meet a Jaunty to take us 11 kms along narrow path through the Gap of Dunloe. This valley was carved out by a glacier following the last iceage.
Taking us was Danny and Sally (the 9 year old Clydesdale) who certainly earned an extra bag of oats tonight for dinner, seeing that Neil and I both had a cooked breakfast this morning and she had to pull our extra weight all that way :-/
Arriving at the Lake, we had a short break for lunch ... yep more food and an irish coffee to warm the cockles.
Then onto an outboard motor boat to sail through the three Killarney Lakes, down a very small rapid and finally to Ross Castle.
A brilliant day out. It's beer o'clock .... better be off to the pub. Trying to get Neil to come with me to a singing pub. He's a shy boy.
We had a blast at Danny Manns Pub with an Irish band from Cork called the Molly McGuires and even Neil was singing along. I met people from Bavaria and Holland. Neil had 5 pints and I had 3.5 pints. Gee I hope we can sleep now. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
