Blogs from County Cork, Ireland, Europe - page 42

Hey Everyone! It’s me again! My apologies for not “blogging” in a while (sounds so gross when I put it that way). So how are we? Everyone swell? I sure hope so. We’ve just finished our second week of children’s theatre classes. We’re actually quite relieved that we had any enrollment at all. Since we’ve been out, it seems the recession has everyone in a standstill and people are picking their jaws up off the floor at how quiet this place is. Slowly but surely, people are coming on holiday and filling the town in…phew. And now Baltimore is booming as expected, just much later than usual. The kids are so very cute and having fun in our classes. Every morning Kenny and I step out while it’s still misty and “soft” as they call it ... read more

So we're wrapping up our time here in Cork, and it's been pretty good so far. Thursday we did the most touristy thing ever - we went to Blarney Castle and kissed the Blarney Stone. It's kind of the most bizarre experience ever. You sit on the ground on the top floor of the castle, then an old man holds on to you and you hold on to a bar on either side of you. Then you lean back as far as you can and put your lips on the spot where millions have before you and where locals are rumoured to pee. And now I apparently have "the gift of the gab". Or good luck. I'm not even sure. Yesterday we took the bus to the seaside town of Clonakilty, which is one of your ... read more

Hello again, we are just getting ready to leave our hostel in Cork. Chelsea and I have been talking about how much fun it would be to open a Bed and Breakfast someday in Seattle. We really enjoy the B&B experience, and think it would be fun from the other side too. Besides, I like to cook breakfast and Chelsea is a compulsive cleaner! We were thinking of combining the B&B idea with another of our ideas...to retire (in 30-40 years) to a little houseboat on url=http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&q=lake+union,&near=Seattle,+WA,+USA&fb=1&sa=X&oi=local_group&resnum=1&ct=image Lake Union . Then we could have 2 rooms available to guests, and when our kids want to come visit we'll only charge them 1/2 the normal rate, hahaha! Good idea?... read more

Heading off travelling in September - arriving in Delhi around the 14th of September we're going travelling around India for 2 months then we're heading to Thailand for Christmas. We're then going to visiting Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. Austrailia beckons in Feburary or March and we're going doing the whole working visa thing cant wait now only another two months of work and study... read more

July 9, 2008 We had another day of great biking. We did about 75 kilometers today, but the hills while a constant companion were not as steep as yesterday. We only had to walk the bikes one time. Another Irish biking tradition we observed today was biking in the rain. Most of the afternoon it was alternating between rain and sun. The tour we are on does a very good job of keeping us on less traveled rural roads, which is nice for not a lot of traffic but the roads are hardly wide enough for one car let alone two cars meeting or a car passing a couple of people on bikes. The redeeming factor is everyone is very aware of people on bikes and they always make way for them, to the point of ... read more