We drive to Cork today. It is the second largest city in Ireland (Dublin being the largest).It is showery and cool, however nice to look around some shops, something we haven’t really done on the whole trip. Our only visit to the famous Marks and Spencer department store is here in Cork and we make the enormous purchase of sandwiches and salad for lunch from their gourmet food section.
It is a long but beautiful drive home thru Middleton, where we stop at the Jamieson whisky distillery visitor centre. Lismore is on the way too, this is a sister town to our Lismore in New South Wales, so picturesque with its river, stone bridges and parks.
On to Clonmel and we have a drink at a little Irish pub where the locals are friendly and want to know all about us. “I have a brother in Melbourne” one says on the off chance we may know him. We then have dinner at a local Indian restaurant, lovely food but charged for the water!!! It’s pouring with rain so a rather slow drive home but as its still light at 8.30pm its picturesque through many green tunnels where the trees grow over the road.
It’s been a long day but we’ve seen a nice slice of the country.
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