A weekend in Cork

Hey there,

While I'm writing this, the Easter holidays with two and a half amazing weeks full of great people, breathtaking nature and fun are over and I have sooooo many stories to tell. But first things first.

Today I will tell you about a lovely girls weekend I had with Siobhán and Sophie in January. Basically the third weekend back the wanderlust came over me again and Siobhán and I planned a weekend in Cork.

It all began with a relaxing Friday morning. After school a teacher who lives in Cork brought us to Killarney, where we met Sophie and the Austrian assistant, Sarah. We spend the afternoon and evening together, starting with a two hour chat in DanJoe's, a very good chipper next to our hostel, and moving on across the street to a pub with live music. We had a good chat and went to bed happy and excited for the next day.

The next morning, Shiobhán and I took the train to Cork. I still find it very cool that your names are displayed :) On the journey I worked a bit on my Irish. We tried some learning strategies and I can still ask how old someone is and say how old I am.

After our arrival in Cork, we walked around for a while and looked at buildings, did a bit of shopping and we also managed to spend an hour in a souvenir shop because it was so full of interesting things :D
As you can see, I even found a Sakura restaurant, which strongly reminded me of home ;)
Then we strolled through the center, climbed up the steep part of Patrick's Hill, from where you have a great view over the city, and ended up having an early dinner in a cute little place called Perry Street Market Café, where we were chatting and eating for the the next three hours. After that, we even let out our artistic side by going into an art gallery close by.

We decided then to go to the cinema and we saw Sing!, which left us singing for about 100 minutes straight and all night afterwards ;)
Back in the hostel, we decided to make the most of our girls night out, got changed, put on our face and went out for a few drinks.
We even passed the Cork Corner House, which made us feel like being in Cahersiveen again for a moment ;)

Seeing this reminded me of my first weekend down in Cork back in October, which was a very good night

The next morning, we made our way to a shopping center in Mahon Point where we did another bit of shopping and afterwards we went to a rugby pitch close by to support the Eagles. The weather was great and the game was interesting. With the crowd from Cahersiveen we made our way back home, stopping in a sports bar, where we had some food. So that was the perfect start of a great time of traveling :)