Castles Galore
PUB COUNT: 26 (but the day is yet young here)
SHOUT OUTS: Jaime and The L'Hommedieu's are right. We need to get a disposable camera and just suck up not having the quality of photo that our $400 camera would have given us. We're just being stubborn and just a wee bit bitter (more Erin than myself, of course, since I am by nature delightfully cheerful and optimistic). The Red Shoe Galleries shall live again!
Monica, we tried to visit the Tower when we hit St. Canice but it was closed until April. We were on the verge of tears when we found out as Erin and I were so very much looking forward to climbing up the obviously spiral staircase for roughly 5-7 stories up in the light offered only by the few arrow slit windows that appeared in the sides. No better way to cure a fear of heights, I'd say. We are staying at the Kilkenny Hibernian Hotel, the best hotel in town. We just discovered this morning that our towel rack is heated! Nothing but the best for this Irish princess.
You would have been proud of us, Joan, as we also added wine to our extensive repertoire last evening. We purchased a bottle of Peter Lehman's, no less, and enjoyed it in our hotel room over a lovely game of cards after our bath in our jacuzzi bathtub. The wine is very much international here with an emphasis on French. Hard not to have beer and whiskey in Ireland though.
Lindsay, thank you for letting my boychild show another dog what's up. Don't mind Scarlett's apparent disinterest as she been working on some hypotheses for matter transportation for the last few years. We're thinking of purchasing Kilkenny Castle so that the petite ya-ya's can frolick freely on the lovely expanse of lawn. You can come stay with us too, steaming bm's included.
So, we are having a lovely time here in Kilkenny. We've visited all of the historic abbeys and castles and I even had enough time to give Erin a wee bit of religious education. She now knows how to cross herself when entering a Catholic church. She was doing it entirely backwards, the work of the Devil to be sure, but is now firmly on the path to salvation. We do still have some work to do since outside one church, Erin tried to dip her fingers into a natural basin that was in the wall of the church that was filled with nasty algae filled rain water, whilst under the assumption that it was holy water. But cheers to her for trying!
This will be our last post from Kilkenny as we leave for Dublin tomorrow morning. We will have some lasting impressions from Kilkenny to be sure. We may never have Irish coffee beverages again in the States as it can never reach the heights of the heaven that we have experienced here - rich, creamy, perfectly sweet - clearly inspired by all the saints in Ireland. We have also noticed that rather than being a land of Irish stew and shepherd's pie, the modern Ireland is one of panini's and lasagne. We asked a woman this morning who was raised here in Kilkenny where I could find Irish stew and she was hard pressed just to think of one pub where they MIGHT have some. We have since confirmed that they do and I will be found there this evening. Funny things also happen to your accent when you spend enough time in English speaking countries that have accents different than your own. Erin and I have surprised ourselves a number of times now when random things have come out of our mouths in a different accent. We shall be your most obviously worldly friends when we return.
Cheers, and we'll see you in Dublin.
SHOUT OUTS: Jaime and The L'Hommedieu's are right. We need to get a disposable camera and just suck up not having the quality of photo that our $400 camera would have given us. We're just being stubborn and just a wee bit bitter (more Erin than myself, of course, since I am by nature delightfully cheerful and optimistic). The Red Shoe Galleries shall live again!
Monica, we tried to visit the Tower when we hit St. Canice but it was closed until April. We were on the verge of tears when we found out as Erin and I were so very much looking forward to climbing up the obviously spiral staircase for roughly 5-7 stories up in the light offered only by the few arrow slit windows that appeared in the sides. No better way to cure a fear of heights, I'd say. We are staying at the Kilkenny Hibernian Hotel, the best hotel in town. We just discovered this morning that our towel rack is heated! Nothing but the best for this Irish princess.
You would have been proud of us, Joan, as we also added wine to our extensive repertoire last evening. We purchased a bottle of Peter Lehman's, no less, and enjoyed it in our hotel room over a lovely game of cards after our bath in our jacuzzi bathtub. The wine is very much international here with an emphasis on French. Hard not to have beer and whiskey in Ireland though.
Lindsay, thank you for letting my boychild show another dog what's up. Don't mind Scarlett's apparent disinterest as she been working on some hypotheses for matter transportation for the last few years. We're thinking of purchasing Kilkenny Castle so that the petite ya-ya's can frolick freely on the lovely expanse of lawn. You can come stay with us too, steaming bm's included.
So, we are having a lovely time here in Kilkenny. We've visited all of the historic abbeys and castles and I even had enough time to give Erin a wee bit of religious education. She now knows how to cross herself when entering a Catholic church. She was doing it entirely backwards, the work of the Devil to be sure, but is now firmly on the path to salvation. We do still have some work to do since outside one church, Erin tried to dip her fingers into a natural basin that was in the wall of the church that was filled with nasty algae filled rain water, whilst under the assumption that it was holy water. But cheers to her for trying!
This will be our last post from Kilkenny as we leave for Dublin tomorrow morning. We will have some lasting impressions from Kilkenny to be sure. We may never have Irish coffee beverages again in the States as it can never reach the heights of the heaven that we have experienced here - rich, creamy, perfectly sweet - clearly inspired by all the saints in Ireland. We have also noticed that rather than being a land of Irish stew and shepherd's pie, the modern Ireland is one of panini's and lasagne. We asked a woman this morning who was raised here in Kilkenny where I could find Irish stew and she was hard pressed just to think of one pub where they MIGHT have some. We have since confirmed that they do and I will be found there this evening. Funny things also happen to your accent when you spend enough time in English speaking countries that have accents different than your own. Erin and I have surprised ourselves a number of times now when random things have come out of our mouths in a different accent. We shall be your most obviously worldly friends when we return.
Cheers, and we'll see you in Dublin.
posted by E-Rae | 5:48 AM
1 Comments:
Ladies - just was reviewing your itinerary and noticed that Holyrood Palace is not listed during your Edinburgh (correct spelling) trek. Please also add that to the itinerary! It’s a must see! Also – the Royal Yacht Britannia is also interesting to see there...you can move on to being Scottish princesses by visiting those royal sites.
Glad to hear you’re having such a smashing time.
Cheerio,
Monica
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