Day Ten, 29 September,2012

Lost my train of thought now! Ah, yes, today we went to Kinsale via Cork. I'd heard about this place as well. Kinsale is the port for Cork City. It has a monument to the Titanic . It was the port that the last passenger was picked up before the Titanic's fateful journey. Kinsale is very pretty as ports go. Today it has a lot of restaurants and boutique shops one of which I had to buy from--- home made chocolate. Funnily enough, it was called Koko. We have a Koko Black in Claremont and the big Kokomo Black in Melbourne. This shop has nothing to do with either of those shops. The owner who makes all of the chocolates, just used the name Koko. Like my brown dog, called Coco . We ate at another lovely eatery called Fishy Fishy which we were told about. All about beautiful fish dishes! We didn't bother going into Cork itself but went to the Blarney Woollen Mills where everything was sold from hand crafted linen and lace to Woollen products, jumpers and the like, to Waterford Crystal wear and other Irish crystal , also touristy things. It's a huge place, a one stop shop if you like. All very interesting, but we were tired and headed back to our cosy Mustard Seed Hotel for more drinks by the fire. We had our own snacks but the owner said, no you must have this on a proper plate and he had the crackers, salmon, cheeses etc brought out in style. We had a wine and turned in for the night. The long drive of the day before plum tuckered us out!! The next day was the drive to Dublin to drop the car off.