After a relaxing night in Kilkenny, we got up and headed into town to buy a new camera and have a look around. After a bit of shopping back and forth, we picked up a camera at White's in the main street and then went on a tour of the castle. We didn't think that the camera battery would be charged, so we didn't take it out for the tour and therefore there are no pics. But let me say this - if you are ever in Kilkenny, you really should go on this tour. The castle is awesome, and it is one of the best castle tours we have ever been on. (I found this pic on the web...)
After the tour we walked back to the B&B and picked up our car (after a 30-45min conversation with the owner on the doorstep about everything and anything) and headed to the Rock of Cashel.
The Rock of Cashel has a history that spans back from the early kings in Ireland, through the Church, and to today as a ruin thanks in part to Cromwell and his army burning it (with thousands of town people taking refuge from them inside) and the elements. If you have the chance, you should really check this out as well. Luckily here I actually decided to check if the camera's battery had a charge or not, and it turned out that it did. :)
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After the Rock it was on to Cork for the night.
Now, when we were in Dublin we saw something on the news about Ambulance drivers saying that Ireland needs postcodes, but we didn't really get what they were banging on about...until now. When we tried to put the address of the B&B in the Navi, we realised that we didn't actually have it. By that I mean that we had the name of the B&B, and we had the name of the Suburb, but we didn't have a postcode (and the suburb wasn't in the Navi by name), and we didn't have a street. So Bel rang the B&B again and asked them what the address was. They told us that the name of the B&B was the address, and that there was no street name, and there is no postcode. Apparently this is normal in Ireland... Anyway, we navigated our way to the suburb/village, and after a few laps of the center of the town we managed to find the B&B based on the picture in the B&B book we had.
The next morning we had planned to go to the Bantry House and Gardens in Bantry which has been in the White family since 1765. Unfortunately this was going to be too far for us to reach and still have time to get to our flight in Shannon. Therefore we gave up on that idea and headed to the Blarney Castle instead. :)
 View of the Blarney Castle on the walk from the car park |  View from another angle. The Blarney Stone is in the middle on the right hand side of the castle |
 View from the top of the Castle down to a couple of towers |  Bel infront of one of the towers seen in the previous pic |
From there it was on to the airport and off to Bath to visit Bec and Chis.
Tschüß,
'Brushy
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