Cork

We spent most of our time in Cork wandering around the town, it was a lot bigger than we thought it would be, but it had some nice pedestrian only shopping streets and i found my dream store of random housey stuff and pretty jewelry and lots of chandeliers so i had a bit of an internal struggle not to spent the remainder of our money in there. We went to a cathedral (i forget what it was called) that has a statue of a gold angel holding a horn. legend has it that right before the apocalypse starts this angel will blow her horn to warn everyone. It was a pretty nice cathedral but when we were there it was closed for lunch. We also went to another church (i remember the name of this one) called St. Ann's where you could pay to climb up the tower and ring the church bells. we played Watlzing Matilda, it was very cool, you got to pull on these cables (one for each bell) to make out the tunes and as you pulled the whole town could hear the church bells. It must get really annoying for the locals especially in summer when the bells must be constantly ringing. The views from the top of the tower were great but to get up there you had to literally climb around the pigeon poo covered bells which wasn't too much fun. we were pretty lucky though, on our way down two guys were in the pigeon poo area and ended up having to huddle under one of the poo bells while we passed them. glad that wasn't me! The only other thing of note that we did in Cork was go to the English Market which is a permanent food market that has been around since 1788. it had lots of butchers and cheese stores, a couple of chocolate shops and then a few other random stores thrown in, this is also the building where i found my favourite store. We had lunch one day in a restaurant up above the English Market so we could look down at all the shoppers and stores while we ate.

Me on a bridge in Cork