Day 8
We started driving into the mountains and it turned out being a beautiful drive. Shaking, fast, and hard to hold on, but beautiful scenery of hill sides covered in flowers, trees and big boulders. Not to mention many, many sheep! It got be really excited to see the sheep dog herding demonstration.
We stopped at Saint Kevin’s Monastery on the way to Cobh and strolled around and ate lunch. I was impressed by the church’s architecture. You could see the old stones on the bottom as a foundation were still there when they placed a new stone structure on top. They held the stones together with mortar.
The next two hours to Cobh I slept and slept and slept. When we got into town, we saw an awesome scenic view. We joked no one had their camera ready but when we pulled over, it was actually because that was right where our hotel was! We are up from the ocean, you can see out very far.
We did a Titanic walking tour that took us down the hill to the ocean and back up the other side. It was beautiful weather and very interesting to hear about Cobh and their involvement in the ships history. Michael, the tour guide, was very knowledgeable and has actually published books on the subject, placed placards around his tour walk and created and wrote this tour.
Tonight we have a group dinner and tomorrow off to kiss the Blarney stone!
