Kinsale for the Final Week

We made it to Kinsale in good form in spite of off-and-on rain. Here is our "Trident Hotel" located at "End of the World" Road.

Here's the lovely view of Kinsale Harbour that we get to view from our window.

We even had a grain tanker come in one day to be unloaded by the orange crane, then into the grey hopper, then into the waiting trucks. Very interesting to watch.

The rest of the harbour was filled with a lot of sail boats and a few work boats.

Kinsale Town itself is a pleasant series of short, narrow streets with interesting shops (all ready and waiting for the tourist).

This year, we were able to get "The Ladies from Ballincollig" to come down to Kinsale so that we could buy them lunch at The Blue Haven instead of having them put out a lunch at Maire's home. A good time was had by all. Here are Nancy, Maire and Sadie:

And we even got Sue to get into the picture too:

The Farmer's Market is usually a great display of home-grown food along with food vendors.

This year, things got a little "rained out" with light rain throughout the morning. Hungry customers and prepared vendors made "a good go of it" anyway.

And to end the week, we even got a visit from Dublin from Marie and Claire who hadn't been on a train trip in ages and decided to come to Kinsale for a couple of days. (And Sue was even willing to get into a photo a second time.)

Here are Claire and Marie just before a lovely meal came at Jim Edward's Restaurant. Another good time was had by all. If they looked relieved, it is because their brother, Gerard, who was quite ill, has come back strong and is on the mend (but a few of your prayers would still be "all good").

At the beginning of this 2009 "travel blog," we noted that we would be visiting many of the same places so we could see more of the people in Ireland with not as many photos of scenery to share. To our great enjoyment, that is pretty much what happened.

We head back to Shannon for one night before we fly back to Chicago's O'Hare to wrap up another wonderful holiday in Ireland. Thanks for joining us.