Ireland day 4
8 October 2017 17:10![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kmusserWe start off with a ridiculously large breakfast spread - my first of many "Irish breakfast"s. Thus fortified we go on a most excellent guided walking tour of the town. Today Kinsale is a small coastal tourist town, that is foodie heaven, seriously I think this place has more restaurants per capita than seems feasable. It was also the primary port of sourthern Ireland for most of the middle ages through the renaissance, and the scene of the final major battle in the English conquest of Ireland. More recently it is also the closest town to where the Lusitania was sunk in WWI. After the tour we visit two mini-museums in town, one about the Lusitania, and one in a ruined castle about the wine industry (Ireland doesn't really make wine, but they did play a big role in shipping it, often serving as a transfer point between England and France and Spain). The castle also held American POWs during the revolutionary war. We have lunch at the White Houe, and I have one of the best seafood chowders I've ever had.
For the afternoon we go on a hike around Kinsale's bay to vist Charles Fort, a star fort similar in design to the several that we have along the east coast - the hike and the fort itself give some lovely views of the bay and looking out towards the ocean. The walk is a long, but fortunately there is a strategically placed pub available for weary hikers, we attempt to have a small snack, but end up feasting before making the trek back to town. In the evening we go out to a pub recommended to us for their music and they did not disappoint. By virtue of being from Chicago I was dragged on stage to help sing "City of Chicago" (which fortunately I knew). Music sample.
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For the afternoon we go on a hike around Kinsale's bay to vist Charles Fort, a star fort similar in design to the several that we have along the east coast - the hike and the fort itself give some lovely views of the bay and looking out towards the ocean. The walk is a long, but fortunately there is a strategically placed pub available for weary hikers, we attempt to have a small snack, but end up feasting before making the trek back to town. In the evening we go out to a pub recommended to us for their music and they did not disappoint. By virtue of being from Chicago I was dragged on stage to help sing "City of Chicago" (which fortunately I knew). Music sample.
Photos: https://www.facebook.com/karl.musser/media_set?set=a.10155485023672247.534887246&type=3