How did our time in County Kerry go so quickly? Yes, I know we tried to pack as much into our days as possible, but still!
As we packed up, it was with a little sadness. Tuosist is such a nice little place.
We were thankful, however, that the drive to Kinsale was not nearly as long as the trip from Fintona. It would have been even shorter if we didn't run into construction, closed roads and one road that we somehow managed to get on even though it should have been blocked off. They were paving the road and there was no getting around them. The construction worker we encountered seemed quite confused that we managed to get on the road in the first place and kindly sent us back the way we came. *Our GPS sent us on a cow path road because another road was closed* We kind of giggled because as we passed by the cow path road (we wanted to stay on the secondary road) there was another car coming that way. The poor road worker had to deal with someone else.
About half way through the trip, we saw the sign "Welcome to County Cork" and since I had missed all the welcome signs, I quickly grabbed my camera to take a picture of it. Bill said, "It's cool that you got a picture of the 'Gaeltacht' sign." I was confused....I didn't see that sign. I was sure he was wrong. Oh, Missy of little faith. *A Gaeltacht is a town where Irish is spoken on a daily basis by at least 67% of the population. Looking around at the next town we came to revealed signs in Irish only. In most towns, the signs have Irish at the top and English on the bottom. In this town, most signs were in Irish only. Even the words painted on the road were Irish only. "Go Mall" means slowly. When we got here and I downloaded my pictures, I was shocked to find that when I took the County Cork picture, the Gaeltacht sign was in the background (although they have it spelled Ghaeltacht). Bill said the next time we are in Ireland, we will actually have to stop in a Gaeltacht since we've passed through one on both of our trips here.
Bill laughed at me when I took a picture of the stop sign at a road work stop. I just found it funny that they have "stop" and "go" signs when we have "stop" and "slow." Silly little differences like this are amusing to me.
We finally got to Kinsale. It was strange because we came into town the opposite way from last time...which made sense since we came from the West this time and East last time. As soon as we were in town (we saw the grocery store where we shopped last time), we were able to turn off the GPS because we knew where we were. 😁
We are staying in the flat below the one we stayed in last year. The view from here seems to be a bit better which is pretty cool. This flat is quite a bit smaller than the other one, but it is still lovely.
Walking around town was cool because, once again, we knew where stuff was. We didn't even have to look at the town map. The kids had fun playing at the playground where they played last year. Katie only asked a time or two to be carried. She stopped asking when Daddy told her that she should carry me since my legs were sore from my race. 😮 I think she thought he was serious.
We ended up having a late dinner because we walked around so long. The kids were happy with leftovers. For Bill, I got creative and make him pasta with a butter sauce and sliced rashers. I'm not sure what it is when we are in another country, but my cooking gets more creative. I guess I have no choice than to use what I have here because....well, because that's what we have. At home, we always have food for at least a dozen different meals. Here, not so much.
Fog is starting to roll in. Bill said that it's starting to look like Maine. 🙂 We haven't figured out what we are doing tomorrow. Cobh isn't too far, nor is Cork. There is also a beautiful beach not far from here. Excitement is always close at hand.
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