Blogs from Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland, Europe - page 4

After a fine breakfast at Trinity College, I was allowed to sneak some fruit from the fruit bar (the guy liked me I guess). Checked out and walked to where to hire the car. All hired, a Blue Ford Focus, left Dublin and drove south along the motorway (allowed to do 120km/hr). Turned south at Port Laoirse (which is strange as its not on the coast - go figure) and headed through Kilkenny, Callan and onto Clonmel. Arrived at my destination in Kinsale and the most lovely B&B. It is just amazing. Rivermount House is perched on the hill overlooking the valley and the town of Kinsale. Have been starved of Internet so have sat here and caught up with things over the last hour. Might have a go at a local pub this evening and ... read more

Sunday and Monday, June 28-29 - Pirates of Kinsale Next on the Rick Steves itinerary was the town of Kinsale, just below Cork in southern Ireland. One of the reasons I was excited to visit County Cork was because I had another Irish ancestor connection here. After my great grandfather (the one from Sligo) immigrated to the United States, he met and married Elizabeth Collins who was from Cork. So after this trip I could say that I had visited the home towns of both my great grandparents.. Sausalito, Not. Kinsale was a more upscale town than other places we had visited. The Rick Steves book said it was like Sausalito (the little town on the other side of the Golden Gate bridge from San Francisco), but it reminded me more of Bar Harbor, Maine with ... read more

From Cork, Ireland we intuited our next destination to be Kinsale, which is a small village on the southern coast of Ireland. We took the bus per our intuitions as there was a large focus of energy that we were drawn to, this based on what our vision forces had revealed to us. In the months prior to this trip, we had united our intentions and purpose to serve a primary vision Spirit gave to us for the purpose of this Spiritual Sojourn. We agreed to this knowing that we would be guided to places where all of us could have our spiritual growth needs met. Kinsale was one of those places. The town alone was a delight to me. It was quaint, colorful, bright and cheerful. There were small shops, pubs and restaurants everywhere ... read more

Got up early this morning to get a good start to Kinsale, a little fishing village in County Cork that Rick Steves highly recommends. Mark looked out the window and said, “it’s overcast and it has been raining. Not raining now.” Well, that was an improvement! After we ate, showered and packed, Mark went to get the car while I checked out. Yvonne stood and chatted with me while we waited for Mark to bring the car around so we could load up and return the parking pass to her. I told her how much we had enjoyed her hotel and how warm the Irish people are. She said, “I’m glad you’ve met the nice ones.” I also told her that Ireland reminded me of what England was like 20 years ago with the green grocers ... read more

Geo: 51.7064, -8.5233Drove down to Kinsale on the coast. VERY foggy.... read more