Onward to Corcaigh!

Work today was relaxed, especially with our trip for the afternoon. Dani, Sarah, and I had packed our bags and walked with them to work so we could head into town and catch the bus straight away. It was actually sunny today, so the walk wasn't half bad. We got to leave work around 3:30, and walked to the City Centre to do some snack shopping and meet up with Josh before catching the half four City Link Bus down to Cork. The bus was pretty empty, so we got to spread out and relax for the 3.5 hour journey.


When we arrived, we walked along the River Lee and into the central part of Cork City. It's huge! Cork is the 2nd largest city in the country, and that's easy to tell. There were people everywhere, shopping and such. Since it was around 8PM, we just headed off toward Sarah's house to wait for the rest of our group to arrive (they'd taken the 6:30 bus). On the way, we stopped at Lennox's (a chipper - basically a take away, or to-go, place that sells fries, burgers, fish and chips, etc.). We ate the food when we got to Sarah's place, which was about a 15 minute walk from town. The food was really, really good.


Once we'd finished, we had time to get ready and hang out until the others called us. We walked down to a pub near Sarah's house and hung out there too until catching a cab out to Ruth's aunt's house - where we were to stay. It was a really nice place, actually, with tons of room for all of us to sleep. After we took the others to McDonald's (they were starving!), we got ready and walked down to Barry's - a pub in this part of the city - and had a good time hanging out and laughing. We even made origami animals!


After that we stayed up for a while chatting and playing cards before going to bed. Tomorrow should be a big day - shopping, Blarney, and downtown Cork at night!