Mike and Sharon along the Wild Atlantic Way / Ireland October 2018

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After checking out of our Cork B&B this morning, we drove south to Kinsale, a town on a beautiful harbor that opens up to the Atlantic Ocean.

We arrived about two hours early at our recently renovated vintage cottage — originally dates back to about 1840 — so we decided to take a long walk out to the historic Charles Fort. Toured the fort, strategically built to protect the harbor, then headed back and stopped for lunch at a cool neighborhood pub, Bulman's.

Sharon’s cream of butternut squash soup was heavenly.

Checked, moved, and settled in at our place high on a bluff in the Scilly neighborhood — yes, indeed, it’s pronounced Silly — then walked around town to get oriented, check out restaurants and pubs, and pick up a few breakfast and lunch groceries.

Had to buy a grocery bag. Good idea. And good that it was pretty heavy duty, because we had a lot to carry back on our 15-minute walk back up our steep hill.

Dinner of seafood chowder and fish and chips was at another historic pub, the Spaniard Inn across the narrow street from our cottage.

Then back to watch a little Irish public television, an unsuccessful tussle with the washer and dryer, and bed.

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Photos

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Along the Scilly Walk out to Charles Fort

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Kinsale Harbor

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Charles Fort

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Charles Fort

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Charles Fort

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Charles Fort

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Charles Fort

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The Bulman Bar

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Lunch! Butternut squash soup and an open-faced prawn sandwich. And ale, of course.

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The Marian Cottage, a VRBO property in the Scilly neighborhood of Kinsale, County Cork.

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The historic Spaniard Inn