This blog is for all of our favorite and dangerous finds in Ireland and for all of the future UCC study abroad students. By now we have discovered a few things and found all the spots our friends who have come to Cork in the past have told us about. 1. The chocolate, cookies (Tesco Brand) and the candy. It's SO dangerous. It put's American candy to shame and it is SO cheap. It's so hard for us to stop into the grocery store without us leaving with an AeroBar the...

Oh Kinsale could you be ANY more gorgeous?! Today the three of us ventured into the Centre hopped on the bus and headed 45 minutes away to a one of the oldest and smallest fishing villages in Ireland. Kinsale is perfection- there really is no other word to use to describe Kinsale. We went on a beautiful and quiet day in the off season. Today was in the high forties, sunny as ever and there was a perfect sea breeze- something I've missed since August days at ...

Today was a big day. Today was the day that Alex, Holly and Hannah got their student Visas! Wooo!We were told to get to immigration early so we left our apartments at 7:50 to get to the immigration office by 8:30 (an hour before it opens). Of course this morning it happened to be MONSOONING. Maybe some of the worst weather we have had since we've been here and had to walk 40 minutes! The weather only seemed perfect because it was dark and rainy and our Visas were...

Last night we were invited out to this Irish "Jamsesh," by one of the professors I met at our academic "walk about" where we met different members of the departments here at UCC. Professor Mags, is part of the music and dance department and is amazing! She is so sweet and invited a bunch of students out to the Blarney Castle Hotel to listen to some locals perform for each other. It was AWESOME. When we got there we didn't really know what to expect because back ...

Well everyone says I'm the Princess, so of course we had to visit our first of many castles on second weekend! Pucker up! Al, Holl and Han ventured into Blarney, about a half an hour bus trip from Cork to kiss the Stone and walk the grounds of Blarney. We walked into the grounds and immediately thought, where's the castle? We started walking along some trails and POOF! There it is. The castle popped up out of nowhere. Honestly, I thought that this was going ...