All the way in Galway...

Wow what a journey! We left Cork yesterday morning, a bit saddened that we had to leave such a beautiful city and such great hosts Avril and Toni at Fernroyd's B&B. I will see you again soon!
Both T'Nasty (her new MC name) wished that we would of have had one more day in Cork and one day less in Dublin...tis' what it is.

Monday we ventured up to Blarney so I can finally see what 'the gift of the gab' was all about.
As we stepped off the bus the rain just poured down on us, luckily there was a pub right in front of us (go figure) so we decided to grab a Guinness and sit while the rain passed us by. As we were sipping this delicious nectar, we didn't realize that we were among the winners of the Blarney Hurling team, all of the sudden a man tapped his glass and started to sing an ol' Irish ballod, my eyes just swelled, this was finally what I was looking for!!! Thoughts of my Dad came pouring through, it was amazing. After our lunch, we headed up to the Blarney Stone, absolutely breath taking, we went all of the way up to the top of the castle's narrow staircase where I would have the chance to kiss the Blarney Stone, hilarious. Then I saw the old Irish man that was going to hold me while I was bentover backwards..as I lay down and started my descent he said " Ah, lets see how she kisses in the afternoon!!" SAY WHAT! no you didn't! and, yes he did..what could I say? i was at his mercy, I slapped his arm when I got up, cheeky man. Love it.
That night, T'Nasty and I decided that this was the night to venture out and possibly have a bender..it was Monday, and not much goes down in Cork on Monday nights..we did however manage to finally meet a guy, not a Irish, but a Belgium, lets just call him M'Nasty (this was the day we made up MC names, obviously). We went to this young University Bar, not our steez, then we went to a place called 'Havana's',weird, we left promptly. Then M'Nasty had the idea to go back to center town and hit a afterhours bar/pub, we were absolutley down as T'Nasty & I haven't had a night out in awhile. It ended up being a Hendrix cover band and a blues band, simply amazing. Good memories.

Lets just say we had a 'grand' time in Cork, it's surely missed. I already can't wait to visit this city again.

Yesterday we traveled across Ireland to get from Cork to Galway, took us all day by train, it very scenic, rolling hills, sheep farms, a old ruin of a castle and once again too late to take a picture, did I tell you that I'm kicking myself for not buying a new camera?!? silly Irish girl.

Today is a whole new day in a new city! First thing is first, coffee and a internet cafe, but I saw a Claddagh jewlery store..must stop in and purchase a ring, maybe it will finally bring me luck? I have everything going towards good luck now, a Claddagh ring, I kissed the Blarney Stone and oh ya, I bit into a pearl last night that was in one of my mussels (at least that's what the chef said as we returned the mussels, back to the kitchen). I kept the 'pearl' just in case, I'll be getting it appraised later this afternoon.

I think that's it for now,
This is KillerK reporting to you from Galway.
xo