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Published: July 25th 2013
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I seemed to have picked up Lindsay’s cold bugs and as the day wore on, mine got steadily worse. Add to that the gloomy weather, it didn’t make for a pleasant day.
The weather wasn’t looking promising but we headed off for Kinsale and Cork on the coast for the day anyway. We took the ring road around Cork and headed off to Kinsale where it was already raining. We remember Kinsale from years ago in the 70’s when we went there with the Tindalls. It is a really pretty seaside resort. Today it was less than inspiring. The tide was out, there were cars and people everywhere and it was raining. We did get to walk some of the town and had a really good seafood chowder at a Pub. We wondered what the crowd was along the foreshore further on where there was a helicopter hovering. It appeared that a sailing ship with a crew of young people had foundered on the rocks and sunk and they all had to be rescued. I didn’t think the weather had been that stormy. A little windy perhaps and rainy but nothing compared with what we are dished up at home
at times. We heard later that there was to be a sail parade but this obviously did not happen. The weather must have been worse on the coast than where we've come from.
So, we left Kinsale and headed for Cork where it was also raining. We left the car at a Park and Ride, got a bus into town, and got tickets for the City Tour on a bus. This is a good way to see a city when the weather isn’t good. We got a good commentary but the town doesn’t have the display of it’s very old past as some other places have. No doubt on a fine day it looks lovely. We stopped at an old prison which had been closed in 1923 to have a look at the way prisoners were dealt with then. Not pleasant. We got back onto the sightseeing bus and continued with the tour from there. Still raining. Persisting down.
We headed back to Callan with more of the usual wrong turns onto wrong roads. The signs aren’t placed in obvious places so it is easy to head off on the wrong one! Annoying. We found part of the
motorway had been closed by flooding and were surprised since it was hardly belting down rain. For a place that rains a lot, there don’t seem to be drains at the sides of the roads which is peculiar.
We stopped in at Clonmel on the way back for dinner and were advised to go to Sean Tierney’s. What a gem it turned out to be. It was beautifully fitted out with brass and wood fittings but it also had all sorts of memorabilia. We were served a good meal in a great atmosphere.
Still raining when we got home but not as persistant as it had been all day. All in all, not a particularly pleasant day and the forecast isn’t looking great either.
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