Hello hello! It has been far too long… Well like I said in my previous post (if you can even call it that) I have had an amazingly amazing, but also very busy summer. I was fortunate to go to lots of festivals this year which were all incredible, I would highly recommend Somersault to everyone next year; it was absolutely beautiful and I saw the one and only Jack Johnson…
Amongst all these festivals I stayed down in Cornwall with my friend Ellie where we took little road trips to beautiful hidden tidal pools, surfed all morning, took sunset surfs, watched surfing competitions in the day whilst lying on the beach (I got horribly tanned - lesson to me to always wear suncream) and then went to Boardmasters Festival in the night.
After all this I went with my family to Ireland. Now my dad's family are from Ireland, a town called Wexford in the South East and we go pretty much every year to visit everyone but we decided this year to venture out of Wexford and go see what else Ireland has to offer.
So we got the ferry from Fishguard to Rosslare and I have to say I despise the ferry but for once the journey wasn't agonising so I survived that one. We arrived in Wexford at my Grandparents house where we stayed for two nights, this included celebrating my Nanny's birthday with our family and her friends and having a good Irish sing song around the dinner table.
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| Blarney Castle, home of the famous Blarney Stone |
On the Sunday morning we woke up early and started on our roadtrip of the South. Our first stop was Blarney Castle which holds the famous Blarney Stone and legend has it that if you kiss the stone you get the gift of the gab ("great eloquence or the skill of flattery") The castle and its grounds were absolutely beautiful and the gardens were equally as beautiful, even the Poisonous Garden which Im still unsure as to why is was poisonous, presumably poison ivy or something. Anyway, we walked around and started to make our way up to the castle and see the stone. The queue just in to the castle was absolutely massive, it stretched all the way through the castle and down the path which meant walking around the castle and up the stairs to the stone was a long and slow effort. I would say we stood in line for about 45 minutes before we decided to give up and leave because God knows how long it would've taken us to get up the hundreds of steps. We kissed off the stone which I wasn't too disappointed about because the whole thing has become very touristy over the years, for example you can get your picture taken while you kiss the stone but it is like the cameras you get on roller coasters and then you had to pay 10 euro for this picture… you see where I'm coming from?
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| Kinsale |
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| Kinsale |
After Blarney Castle we made our way to Kinsale while stopping off in some towns along the way. Kinsale is a lovely little sea-side thats famous for its fish restaurants and sailing. The town was very small and had some lovely little restaurants and shops and there was a fair in the town centre the night we were there. My dad was hugely keen on visiting this restaurant called Fishy Fishy which is apparently very famous as far as fish restaurants go, and I'll admit that I did sulk a little bit at the thought of going to a fish restaurant where there was probably nothing I could eat and if there was it probably would be horrifically boring. My mind was changed when we got there as I ordered spinach risotto (the only vegetarian dish on the menu…) and as I like spinach and risotto it was a winner.
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| Drombeg Stone Circle |
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| Drombeg Stone Circle (please ignore how hideous I look…) |
Who doesn't love a Solstice stone circle? I certainly do and probably got way too over excited when we went to this one. It was lovely and as you can see from the top picture the view was beautiful and we could just see the sea over the hills, the only downside to Drombeg was the size; our Stonehenge back in England is much bigger…
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