(D) Our first morning in Ballyvaughan and I woke up pretty early again, I don’t know why it’s impossible to sleep in on holidays but it is what it is I guess. One of the lovely things about self catering though is that I could get up and come into the lounge area and make some plunger coffee and something to eat and generally potter about without disturbing Liane. Mind you she woke up not too long after me anyway and made herself some eggs & tomatoes ...

(D) After our relaxed and laid back night we woke up reasonably early and were pretty much packed up and ready to go before 8am which of course was breakfast time. We planned to just eat and leave so figured we could possibly get away without topping up the parking meter. I don’t think we’ve mentioned that all parking in Kilkenny is metered and though we were lucky that it was broken when we arrived Saturday (and there happened to be a parking guy the...

(L) It was nearly 1am when we got to bed so both of us managed to have a good sleep in and we wandered down to breakfast around 9.30. Eimer, our wonderful hostess, once again cooked us a big breakfast to sustain us through another day of sightseeing so all full we headed out to check out the town.The rough plan was St Canice's Cathedral, climbing the Tower and the Castle so we headed off up High St into Parliament Street and soon found our way to St Canice...

(L) As we were mainly driving around taking thousands of photos today I have "volunteered" Deb to be the chief blogger today... I was originally going to just add a few bits and pieces but she has done such a wonderful job recounting all the days happenings so I leave you to enjoy our wonderful day..... (D) Our first full day in Kilkenny and once again Liane and I both woke up at a ridiculously early time in the morning. We chatted, blogged, emailed, looked at ph...

(L) We were both awake by just after 5.30 as we have to get organised for our trip to the airport to pick up the car. The original plan was to head out for breakfast at 7 so as to be ready to leave by 8-8.30 ish but unfortunately when we googled places to eat we couldn't find anything open this early (being as it doesn't get light until 7.30 ish I guess there's not too many people meeting for breakfast in the dark on a Saturday!). Deb rang down to the...