Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Cashel

We arrived into Cashel in the afternoon and luckily found somewhere to stay straight away (we hadn't had the internet and our phone wasn't working so we couldn't book anywhere in advance). We stayed in a 8 bed dorm room in a hostel, we were lucky to get the room to ourselves because we needed all the blankets it was so cold!!! That night we watched movies huddled into one bunk bed wearing our scarves, beanies and gloves. The next morning was the greatest morning of the entire trip, when i woke up it was snowing!!!!!! I'd never seen snow before so i quickly got dressed and ran out into the street  to take photos and try to catch it. it wasn't very heavy but an hour later when up in our room it got much heavier so we managed to get some good photos...
Snow outside our bedroom window
After checking out and defrosting our car we drove up the hill to the Rock of Cashel, we spent about 10 minutes trying to work out how to get in before finding the sign saying it was closed due to the weather conditions. This was really annoying because we had taken a big detour to go and stay in Cashel purely to go and visit this castle.
We had a walk around the town & breakfast in a bakery cafe and then started the long drive to Enniskillen.

The town of Cashel blanketed in snow

2 comments:

julie said...

It must be beautiful but so cold are you supposed to be driving when its snowing?

Mumbo said...

Looks beautiful,what a pain the castle was closed.