Ireland

[JulianT]

Flying out to Cork on Sunday for a few days and then picking up a car and driving to Dublin for the week with work. Anyone been to Cork?

Looking forward to Dublin as been there many times but Southern Ireland is new to me. Also looking forward to a decent pint of the black stuff

[Jack8]

You lucky chap, that will be so good.

[JulianT]

Hope so, should be a good trip. Irish ladies look out

[Dusty]

Never been to southern Ireland

[xallers]

IIRC Cork is the second largest city after Dublin
I've been there and spent a day investigating and had a good time there

I would say its the smaller towns that seem more different from the UK
whereas the larger cities could in many ways be anywhere in europe

[JulianT]

Looking forward to seeing a bit of Cork and we have the whole day to drive from Cork to Dublin, its only a 3 hour drive so should be nice and scenic.

[Jack8]

A whole day to drive 3 hours should be able to stop and see a lot of the place.

[JulianT]

Especially as there are 2 of us going so we can both sit back and admire the views at some point......


Or fall asleep !

[xallers]

Looking forward to seeing a bit of Cork and we have the whole day to drive from Cork to Dublin, its only a 3 hour drive so should be nice and scenic.

Hmm - you might just need a day - it takes 2->3 times as long to get between two points on the map in ireland

[JulianT]

From the Emerald Isle. Lovely place is Cork , to be sure, to be sure.

[Jack8]

Sounds like you are enjoying yourself.

[xallers]

Main part of it is on an island in the middle of the river from what i recall
must be 10 years since i was there last

[JulianT]

I can see the river from the hotel window.

Had a short drive out to the office today, the sat nav we hired from Hertz didnt even recognise the address so good job i bought my one !

Off to Dublin tomorrow.

One thing we have noticed is how expensive it is, 4.5 euros for a pint seems a little extreme to me.... but thats the euro/sterling for you.

[Jack8]

I am flying out to Ireland on Thursday and come back on Tuesday. I have been told I will doing the following;

http://www.guinness-storehouse.com/en/Index.aspx

Going for a Party in Bradys Shankhill Bar

Going to http://www.jfp.ie/

Staying at the Following Hotel :http://www.royalhotel.ie/

Looks like there will be some nice places to walk as well.

[Jack8]

Update been told I will be going to this Bar as well.

http://www.marriott.co.uk/hotels/photo- ... &imageID=0