Jeff and Sharon's Travel Blog

I personally woke up early. I knew the alarm was set for 6:10AM, but I can’t stand to be woken up by an alarm. It startles me and I’m just not the same for a few minutes after that.

We got up and got ready. Afterwards we ate our usual breakfast in the shared kitchen area. I had the last two chocolate muffins while Sharon had cereal.

Sharon had mapped out our route on her phone the night before. The only problem was that I hadn’t charged her phone (forgot to plug it in). Our Pixel 2 phones charge fast and within the short amount of time that I figured out that the phone wasn’t ready vs. the time we left, the phone had charged 30% which is phenominal compared to my previous phones. Phone batteries have come a long way.

After a short walk we caught our bus a few blocks from the dormitory we are sta

Where to begin? Today has been very full and pretty wonderful. We woke up early this morning because we had…

I had trouble sleeping in the night. Our bed is probably a bit wider than a twin bed but not as wide as a full. Normally I’d guess it is made for 1 college student, not a married couple. Also initially our room was too hot and there was no air conditioning. Our only solace is opening up a window to let the cool air in.

There is a green night light which shines directly in my face during the night. So I got out my eyemask which I normally use on planes. i felt somewhat of a diva needing my beauty sleep, but in reality it was blocking an annoying light.

After getting ready we had breakfast – 2 chocolate muffins for me and some type of generic multigrain Cherrios for Sharon….which she said tasted nothing like Cheerios.

We were running a bit late for the bus to church so we had to book it. Fortunatel

Today was Sunday, so we visited with the church of Christ at Knocklyon, a suburb of Dublin. As far as…

I woke up early while Sharon was still sleeping. I got a shower before quietly waking Sharon up. Our B&B host, Yvonne had given us soda bread the day before. I had some bread with strawberry jelly on it.

Sharon said that I should go to St. Canice Cathedral to get some good photos of the inside of the church top of the round tower. She said that she was not up to walking so far.

St. Canice Cathedral is farthest along the medieval mile. I got to the end of the street and went up some seeps and there it was. This was the same church we tried to visit yesterday but there was a wedding being held there.

The inside of the church was much like the other churches we visited It had stained glass and crypts. One of the crypts was of a man born with no legs and arms but was still able to thrive and become

We slept in this morning, and I suggested that Jeff go up by himself to St. Canice’s to try again…

Sharon and I had mutually decided to take the 9:05AM bus to Kilkenny. There was a 7:05AM bus but we were much too exhausted to take it. So we headed out at 8AM. We checked out of Lancaster Lodge and went to the Mardyke bus stop. I had routed our journey through Google with the least amount of walking. We caught the 208 bus and asked the driver to take us to St. Patrick Quay (pronounced Key). I was following the route on my phone and after about 3 stops the driver said we should get out as this was our stop.

We walked across the bridge and several blocks later we spotted the unmistakeable green Dublin Coach bus. It was parked on a street away from its usual spot on St. Patrick’s Quay due to water pipe installations. Our driver was onboard but taking his time opening the doors. He did finally open his doors and we showed him our ticket on the phone. We had a slight panic moments before because I could not find the ticket PDF on my phone. But we were able to connect to the int

We left our hotel in Cork at 8:00 this morning and walked to the bus stop to catch a ride…

We had decided to visit the enormous Rock of Cashel today. This involved a 90 minute bus ride from Cork Bus station to Cashel on Bus Erieann’s X8 service. It was an express bus meaning it made less stops and got there faster.

This involved catching the earliest bus departing at 8AM. So we got up and left at around 7AM to make it from our hotel room in time. We caught a 220 bus from our Mandyke bus stop and got off with a bit further walk to the bus station. (Shouldn’t all buses eventually go to the bus station? Not this one!)

While we were walking I spotted a bakery and suggested we get breakfast there. We had not had breakfast at the hotel because we had left so early. I got a chocolate muffin and OJ while sharon got a croissant with chocolate and a citrus drink. The attendant offered to give us ice in cups. This is somewhat of a novelty as ice is

We had an early start this morning to catch a bus to catch the bus to the Rock of Cashel,…