Day 3 continued...

Our journey continued on the way to Kilkenny. After the nice Petrol station lady helped us, we were able to follow the directions pretty well until we got to Kilkenny. Thanks to my mom's wonderful idea, we have a cell phone (mobile (mo-by-l for their pronunciation compared to our mo-bill) phone) and I was able to call the B&B. The VERY nice lady there sent her husband to come and rescue us and he lead us up to their location.

Kilkenny is a beautiful little town but the roads there are insanely tiny. There's barely enough room for 2 cars to pass and often times there are other cars on the side of the road so you have to let one side go first (or there are braver Irish people that just plow on ahead). I didn't have to drive through the town itself too much so that was a good thing. I'm not sure I could have navigated down those roads.

Nick and I were quite hungry after our 4-5 hour drive so we gamely took their map and walked into town to find dinner. The map said it wasn't to scale and, sure enough, it wasn't. We had to double back a few times to make sure we were going the right way (we were) and so finally I stopped a nice couple on the street and asked them if they knew where Italian Connection was. They didn't but they pointed to another Italian restaurant a few buildings up that we could try. (Little did we know that Italian Connection was right across the street!)

The food there was good, a bit expensive but it is in most locations here. After dinner we walked down to the castle (or at least what I think was the castle) and took some pictures. Then back to the B&B for some much needed rest.

The next morning the owners were so wonderful in helping us to plan our route to Kinsale. They even called the next B&B for us and wrote down the directions as well as showed us on the map. With their directions, we had no trouble getting to the town. Once we were in town, that was when we had some trouble...but that's for the next story.

I do highly recommend The Meadows B&B in Kilkenny (6 Greenfields Road, Bishop Meadows, Kilkenny City - 056 7721649) for anyone who wants a great place to stay. It was clean, quiet and they served an amazing breakfast!