Ireland Travel Experience - Part 2

                                 As far as my stay in Dublin, the weather ranged from 0 to 15 degrees Celsius with wind, rain, breeze, fog and snow divided over different days, weeks and months. Also I saw snow fall for the first time in Dublin, but it lasted only for a few hours on that day. Coming back to my second tour, it happened the second day itself after our first tour. This time it is Cork city - south west region of Ireland.

Started @ 7:00 a.m in the morning - seems like sun rise is by 8 to 8:30 a.m and sun set is by 4:30 - 5:00 pm in the winter seasons of Ireland. It was kind of long dark nights and short bright days. Had a break at one of the service station when cork city was 150 km away. It was drizzling rain and chill wind in the morning. Our first stop was Rock of Cashel  at 9:10 a.m.

Took some photo shots and attended a audio visual session for about 20 minutes describing the history of Rock of Cashel from12th to 16th century. St.Patrick's Rock and St.Dominick's Abbey were the major attractions. Then while heading to the cork city, it was full of snowy mountains and evergreen grasses with lambs and cows seen at some of the lanes.

The tourist guide or driver was a lady who was talking non stop like an RJ 24/7 explaining about the history of Cork city, castles, counties and flags of Ireland. There were 3 major counties and all counties have a nickname. Cork is the Rebel county. They owe their plantation / rebels. County Cork is near to the limerick county. Roads were all straight and clean through out the city. We entered the county cork by 11:10 a.m. Some call Cork as the true capital of Ireland.

Cuban revolution war book has more information about the Irish counties, women, culture etc. Entering into the Cork (30 km away), the roads were covered with fog and snow at both sides. The leaves on trees and grasses (herbs and shrubs) were almost yellow and orange in color all the way. More history on Cork city and rest of my second tour will be continued in Part 3 :)

To be continued...