We decided to take a day touring sights around Cork. We felt what had to be seen in Cork was done. We started with breakfast at our bb and headed down the hill to the Paddywagon desk. We have used Paddywagon quite a few times on this trip and they have been great!
We bought the hopper ticket which does a figure 8 loop..cork, blarney castle, cork, Cobn, flora park, Middleton and back to cork. The shuttle only come by each spot every two hours so we had to carefully plan our day.
We were on the first trip to Blarney at 930 am. It quickly became clear this was the best decision of the day. We were able to go right into the Blarney Castle area. Although mom has said for months no Blarney Castle..we were glad we went. It was another beautiful day..who says it rains in Ireland all the time? The castle and the grounds are beautiful! Mom even climbed to the top! Not sure will ever hear the end of that...Wayne was the only one who actually kissed the stone. We wandered around the gardens and grounds and some amazing views of the castle and amazing view from the top. I am sure you will hear mom mom go on and on about the steps and how much walking we did..today topped the walking at about 10 miles.
When we left Blarney the line was huge. Again glad we are the 930 trip.
Back on the bus and off to Cobn. Beautiful small waterfront town. Primarily know as the last stop of the Titanic before the fatal trip. The Titanic stopped in Cobn and picked up 223 passengers. 44 of whom survived. The original White star line building and boarding area is still there and has been turned in to a visitor center and tourist attraction. We did not go though but visited the area. We walked around town and stopped for lunch. Nothing impressive.
Back not the bus and on to Middleton the site of the Jameson distillery for a tour. We had a great tour that explains the history and the process of the triple distilling. We had a nice tasting of Jameson at the end. Mom and I had the Jameson with ginger and lime. Pretty good..Wayne had his straight.
Back in the bus and back to town...what a crazy busy long day! We stopped at a placed called gallaghers on our way back to our bb and had s nice dinner.
By the time we got back to the bb we had been out for about 12 hours.
Fitbit tracker 22131 steps..9.82 miles.
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