{"id":191,"date":"2017-09-16T16:07:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T16:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travels.x10.bz\/wp\/?p=191"},"modified":"2022-07-08T16:54:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T20:54:23","slug":"saturday-in-cork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/2017\/09\/16\/saturday-in-cork\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday in Cork!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We realize that some of our photos aren&#8217;t posting properly and are trying to determine why that&#8217;s happening! &nbsp;In the meantime, we&#8217;ll say a little more about why we like Cork so much (besides the music in the pubs.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_1066.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_1066.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_1066.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_1066-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_1066-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_1066-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_1066-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_1066-750x563.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s always something going on here! &nbsp;This weekend there is an <b>International<\/b>&nbsp;<b>Storytelling Festival<\/b> and next weekend there&#8217;s a <b>Folk Music Festival.<\/b> We&#8217;ve found great restaurants with creative menus, enjoyed hearty soups served with slices of brown bread plus, buskers on nearly every street corner. &nbsp; Today we discovered a great bookstore called <b>Waterstone&#8217;s. &nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>So here are our Cork highlights!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>St. Anne&#8217;s Church<\/b> topped by a weathervane shaped like a giant golden salmon.<\/li>\n<li><b>Linehan&#8217;s Sweet Shop<\/b> Shandon-one of the oldest sweet shops in Ireland.<\/li>\n<li><b>The English Market.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>St. Patrick&#8217;s Street<\/b>-the main shopping street in the city.<\/li>\n<li><b>St. Finbarr&#8217;s Cathedral<\/b>-nineteenth-century neo-gothic cathedral.<\/li>\n<li><b>The Butter Museum<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>Plus, there&#8217;s more to see that we just didn&#8217;t get to!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Below is the tiny prayer book displayed in <b>St. Anne&#8217;s Church<\/b>&#8211;measures about 1.5 inches square!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_1052-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_1052-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_1052-2.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_1052-2-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_1052-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_1052-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_1052-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_1052-2-750x563.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTomorrow we&#8217;ll retrieve our rental car and head out on the wrong side (to us) of the highway! &nbsp;We&#8217;re moving south to the harbor town of <b>Schull<\/b>!<\/p>\n<p>There just aren&#8217;t enough hotel rooms in Cork for all of the people who want to visit so that makes hotel prices more expensive than we&#8217;re used to. &nbsp;Of the two we&#8217;ve stayed in here, we&#8217;d pick <b>Hotel Issacs<\/b> over <b>Jurys Inn<\/b> though either one is fine.<\/p>\n<p>So, we&#8217;ll try to resolve our technical issues! &nbsp;Fingers crossed!<\/p>\n<p>Slainte!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We realize that some of our photos aren&#8217;t posting properly and are trying to determine why that&#8217;s happening! &nbsp;In the meantime, we&#8217;ll say a little more about why we like Cork so much (besides the music in the pubs.) There&#8217;s always something going on here! &nbsp;This weekend there is an International&nbsp;Storytelling Festival and next weekend &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/2017\/09\/16\/saturday-in-cork\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday in Cork!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2565,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/2565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}