Friday 8 April- We woke after a peaceful nights sleep to a lovely, if quiet breakfast. I had scrabbled eggs with smoked salmon on toast and Ian had the ubiquitous Irish breakfast. The most striking thing about breakfast was that our juice was served in stemmed glasses on a saucer, complete with doily. We finished our dinner then decided to tackle the town. When we stepped out of the house we were surprised to find the streets shrouded in fog. The harbor looked entirely different from the evening before and we could just make out a few boats here and there. We wandered around the town, poking in a few shops and waiting for other to open; took a walk up to Esmond Castle and the carmelite monastery then circled back to the post office, which seemed to be the main attraction of the town, at least for the locals, so we had to queue for awhile to purchase stamps. We walked along the harbor as the fog began to lift and the sun soon made an appearance. We joined a walking tour of Kinsale and learned of its many connections to Bristol (the two both being major port towns) including the Kinsale/Bristol giant. After our tour we checked out of the B&B and made our way back through cork to Blarney.
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