After a nice breakfast in the Dunraven Arms Hotel, we started north to see the Cliffs of Moher before arriving at Kilcolgan Castle. The Cliffs are not exactly on the way between the other two, but they are not too far off course. We started on a fairly nice two-lane road, spent a few miles on a toll motorway, then the road quality went down progressively until the gps noted we were driving on an unnamed road and ready to turn onto another unnamed road. At least t...

We had our first and only breakfast at Garnish House. It was delicious and offered a huge amount of food for ten euro per person. Philip even had Baileys cream on his porridge, and I had eggs en cocotte with cheddar topping which was one baked egg covered with melted Irish cheddar and warm Irish cream served in a small baking dish. It's too bad and it’s a good thing that we did not try their breakfast earlier. We would have wanted it every day, and it would...

The morning started with beautiful sunny weather. Our first outing was to the annual meeting of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, but on the way we stopped off at the Coffee House for a quick breakfast. It's the nearest place to get food, but we hadn’t gone in before saving it for when we might be rushed or too tired to go farther. As it turned out, the coffee and croissants were delicious. We should have tried it sooner. The conference took...

This morning Philip left early again for the conference. He had a lunch meeting scheduled with one of the professional genealogists for one-on-one discussion and help with his research so we didn't plan to meet up until late in the afternoon. I did laundry again then went exploring the old city some more. I bought some t-shirts—one at the English market and 2 at the UCC student bookshop. I was able to visit the Boole Library, too, although Lorna had said t...

Yesterday, Phil went to class in the morning then we both went on the group field trip in the afternoon. The trip was to Cobh (pronounced Cove) and Midleton. We started with a thirty-minute drive to the Cobh Heritage Centre, and there received a welcome from the centre's administrator who gave us a brief orientation to the centre and some historical background on the town. Cobh was the last port of the Titanic and the exhibition does a good job of describing what...