We realize that some of our photos aren’t posting properly and are trying to determine why that’s happening! In the meantime, we’ll say a little more about why we like Cork so much (besides the music in the pubs.)
There’s always something going on here! This weekend there is an International Storytelling Festival and next weekend there’s a Folk Music Festival. We’ve found great restaurants with creative menus, enjoyed hearty soups served with slices of brown bread plus, buskers on nearly every street corner. Today we discovered a great bookstore called Waterstone’s.
So here are our Cork highlights!
- St. Anne’s Church topped by a weathervane shaped like a giant golden salmon.
- Linehan’s Sweet Shop Shandon-one of the oldest sweet shops in Ireland.
- The English Market.
- St. Patrick’s Street-the main shopping street in the city.
- St. Finbarr’s Cathedral-nineteenth-century neo-gothic cathedral.
- The Butter Museum.
- Plus, there’s more to see that we just didn’t get to!
Below is the tiny prayer book displayed in St. Anne’s Church–measures about 1.5 inches square!
Tomorrow we’ll retrieve our rental car and head out on the wrong side (to us) of the highway! We’re moving south to the harbor town of Schull!
There just aren’t enough hotel rooms in Cork for all of the people who want to visit so that makes hotel prices more expensive than we’re used to. Of the two we’ve stayed in here, we’d pick Hotel Issacs over Jurys Inn though either one is fine.
So, we’ll try to resolve our technical issues! Fingers crossed!
Slainte!