If it's Tuesday, Part II

This morning, we left Kenmare and drove partway around the Ring of Kerry, stopping as often as possible to look around and take pictures. After driving through Killarney National park quickly yesterday we decided to go back again today, this time, going slower and stopping more. The park is beautiful and mountainous. The roads can be narrow at times but, for the most part, there are no hedges, trees or walls blocking the view. There are tons of rocky hills and green valleys that make it awesome to drive through. We stopped a few times to explore trails. We bought lunch before leaving this morning and stopped to eat it by an old castle by the road. After walking through waist high grass, we found a rock to sit on and eat where we could not hear or see the road.

Last night, we saw the sun streaming through misty clouds over the Killarney lakes valley - it was beautiful. It is kind of hard to describe the "wow" we experienced around every second corner of the the park road (and believe me there were plenty of corners!).

Then it was time to move on to Cork. That took most of the rest of the afternoon. We only got lost twice. Eventually we found the hostel we had a reservation at, in the old quarter under the Bells of Shandon. Unfortunately, our first impression of Cork isn't that great, except that they have internet access! We'll have supper and sleep, then try again tomorrow. If we've had enough, we'll leave earlier. Our plan is to spend tomorrow night back in Limerick, and then fly out on Thursday morning. We can always change our minds, but the car is due back at Shannon at 10 am that morning.

Talk to you all again soon!