Love European towns and cities and their squares with no traffic and place for community to gather. I found a fish market and we split the best fish fry (wild haddock) we'd had since Scotland in 1998 in the few minutes we had before the jazz performance started. Not much time for the kids to look around as it was back on the bus to get to Cork and dinner.
Here's a map I took a photo of at a service station which are also are fairly new in Ireland. Ours along the interstates, at least the ones I'm most familiar with in Indiana, Ohio and New York State along Interstate 90 aren't as nice. These have Burger King and Subway, but also some good local food, drinks, pastries, etc. The drivers have to legally stop periodically so for two days now, we've enjoyed these pit stops for drivers' breaks. You can see where we traveled today.
We are in Cork for three nights, staying in apartments at University College Cork. Everyone has their own room and bathroom and share a living room/kitchen in groups of 4-6. The dinner tonight, at least from my perspective, was even better than the last dorm food. The food was all sourced locally and tasted so fresh. Roasted vegetable frittata (my choice) or pasta with tomato/bacon/basil sauce, fresh carrots and potatoes, salad bar, and pear crisp with real whip cream. Oh, and rolls with butter. We got to take the left over rolls because they said they would just throw them out. Forgot what big appetites teens have!
We can sleep in tomorrow. They have already delivered breakfast to the apartments (orange juice, milk, cereal, yogurt, bread and butter and an apple) assuming correctly that the students are not likely to get up and walk 15 minutes to breakfast. They don't need to set an alarm tomorrow morning because we don't leave for concerts until 11 am.
Thank you for letting your children come with us to experience this wonderful country and what it's like to do a concert tour!
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