Ireland
Day 1: Va to Dublin
Our trip started pretty uneventfully as Natalie and Gigi dropped us off at the airport. Saying goodbye was a little rough...first time we'd left her like this!
2pm out of Roanoke and 645 pm out of Atlanta, both on time and easy. We landed at about 7am Dublin time, neither of us having slept much at all. We grabbed coffee, our rental car, and off we went to Kilkenny.
An hour and a half drive from Dublin, Kilkenny is an old medieval town with a few tourist destinations. We toured the castle, originally 4-walled and built on the site of Richard "Strongbow"'s original Normal fort. Oliver Cromwell knocked down one wall in his rebellion from Charles I. We climbed the tower at St. Canice's Cathedral so we could view the entire town an countryside.
From Kilkenny we drove to Cashel, a quiet, quaint town dominated by a medieval castle/fort/cathedral called the Rock of Cashel. Unfortunately, renovations are being done, so a but of the cathedral is covered by scaffolding. It's quite impressive in any case. That night we ate an early dinner and promptly passed out for 11 hours.
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