Blogs from Cork, County Cork, Ireland, Europe - page 20

Well, it was a few days anyways :) So the week after London was a complete blurr to me. I slept the entire first day after and I think I was just "off" the whole week. I finally got back to normal towards the end of the week and we decided to take a little “day trip” on Saturday…aka Single Awareness Day. We went to Cobh aka Queenstown aka Cove to check out where Titanic made its last stop. It was a cute little town but hardly anything was open. They had some pretty colored houses though (pictures are up on flickr!) and we had a somewhat cloudy day, so maybe that’s why I didn’t enjoy it as much. On the way back, we were told that there was a cool animal park with cheetahs and ... read more

This weekend I came to Ireland to visit Tanya. We had a lot of fun. Here are some highlights. The first night we went out to a pub (i forget what it was called...) and then on the way back we decided to go to this fast food resturant called Hillbillies. They serve fried chicken there, and I need to point out that I don't think that either Tanya or I enjoy fried chicken. haha. But we ate like savages in that resturant. There were four of us (Tanya and I and her two flatmates Kathryn and Gina) and we ordered a family bucket. There was a lot of food. It could probably feed like eight people, but we ate it all. We were burning our fingers on the chicken it was so hot, and we ... read more

I am sooooooooo sick! Ugh. I say “as a stray dog” because there are so many roaming the streets of Ireland! Apparently Irish dog owners do not like neutering their pups? Therefore, lots of dogs with no homes :( They might put in a law soon that you MUST neuter your dog. I want to take all of them in cause it’s so sad! Anyway, I have whatever Irish virus is going around right now. I mean, it was inevitable considering I was out late, adjusting to the time difference, and being exposed to every single person in every one of my classes coughing? Yuck. But now I’m one of them. I couldn’t sleep Monday night because I was coughing waaay too much. It was awful but now I’m just super congested so when I eat ... read more

Our first time traveling to another place in Ireland was County Cork. It was the first time we got to see the countryside outside the city and the sheep! (my fave). We got into Cork late Thursday and just checked into our hostel and went to sleep. On Friday we went into Blarney which is a cute little town and checked out Blarney Castle. It is actually really tiny compared to other castles we have been to. The grounds were really pretty and they had a little nature walk with legends about witches. The pictures kind of explain, but there were some wishing steps that said if you walked up and down then with your eyes closed the witch would grant you a wish. She lived in a cave at the top of the hill which ... read more

So where did I leave off? Oh yes, Thursday night wasn’t anything too exciting. The four of us finally did some hardcore grocery shopping. I got some pasta, pre-made Hawaiian pizza, chicken, Ben and Jerry’s Chocolate Fudge Brownie (7 Euro but totally worth it!), butter, jam, bread, turkey, cheese, tea and honey (for my sore throat, of course!)...it was quite successful! We planned on taking the bus back since it is a pretty long walk with such heavy bags (that’s what I get for getting a huge bag of potatoes!) but the bus was taking too long so we took a taxi instead and figured it would be cheaper. It was probably only one euro cheaper but I honestly think it depends on the driver you get because I’ve heard people of getting all different rates ... read more