Day 8

Day 8: Today we slept in late, cooked blueberry muffins, and then drove to Bantry in search of internet, money, and food. Bantry is a beautiful little harbor town with quaint streets and very nice people. Unfortunately it was bank holiday weekend and everything except the hotel restaurant was closed. And also unfortunately, we had one of the worst meals of our trips at said restaurant. The funniest part of the day was the fact that Bantry has loudspeakers posted all around the town and they’re piping random music loudly throughout the streets. Laura and Lisa called it the “soundtrack of the city”.

We met a very nice man and his wife, James Hegarty. He turned out to be a homeopathic doctor and quite an intellectual. Tom ended up talking with him extensively as we wheeled around the grocery store there in Bantry. After pillaging the big supermarket we came back to Derryfunchion to rest and drink a little wine and eat some cheese. We whipped up a lovely meal of pork chops, baked apples and hazelnuts, garlic potatoes, and salad.

We also realized that Clare’s CD and DVD case and backpack was missing and we sent out a flurry of emails from Lola’s Blackberry to try to track it down (the miracles of technology). A few hours later we got an email back from Mary at The Thornbrook House that she had found Clare’s case in the drawer in the room we stayed in. So, the plans is tomorrow that Tom and Bill will drive ALL THE WAY back to Cashel to pick it up. Whew.

téigh in éag (means: to end!)