Ireland Day 12
This morning at breakfast I met Paddy and Mary, who were in town for a wedding. We had a good
visit and conversation which always makes the day a bit brighter. On the advice of Margeaux, I
headed down and visited a little port town named Cobh (pronounced
cove). It was the last port
of call of both the Titanic and the Lusitania. There was a guy there that did a walking tour
around the town and told about some of the town history and some stories of the Titanic and he
had photographs and such to show along the way. After that I headed towards Waterford City, but
only made it as far as Dungarvan. I found a hostel and got a room for 20 euro and the lady told
me where to find good music. Once again I was close enough to walk to the town center, so I
went down and had a nice Indian cuisene dinner, and headed up to the pub. The music didn't
start 'till almost 11pm, so I just barely made it out of the room by 10:00 the next morning.
One oddity here that doesn't really happen in the States has to do with cash machines. There are atm's on every other corner in the towns and it seems that there is always a line waiting to use each one. At home, I guess everyone just uses their bank card and doesn't worry about the cash, but most of the places here don't have credit card machines.
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