Kilkenny

We arrived early this morning after a horrific flight of turbulence and gas. Bill says that we are not going to talk about bodily functions on the blog (who does he think he is talking to?) but there is no way I can not mention the foul stench that continually wafted towards us from some old man in a row nearby. Bill and I had to breath into our blankets for half the flight. Just as we were able to breathe normally one of us would catch a whiff and whisper "incoming!" and up go the blanket filters.

Anyway, we arrived in Dublin at 5:00 AM and discovered that the sun doesn't rise here until almost 8:00. And neither do the people. After a 90 minute drive to Kilkenny we found the town dark and still completely shut up at 7:30 AM. We had to walk around for an hour before we could finally get into a cafe but once we did we were very happy.

Kilkenny is decorated for Christmas with strings of lights like the ones cascading down the front of this building.

The big tourist event in Kilkenny is the castle so we did the obligatory tour.


After the castle we wandered into a little craft shop enclave where Bill bought a new silver ring with the pattern of the book of kells. Here is the cute little man who made it in his back room trying to oxidize it since Bill didn't like the shiny version. Or maybe he just went back there to toot.

Next on the agenda should be dinner - but Bill has fallen asleep while I was writing this. More tomorrow!