Cottage Christmas

Since it was well after dark when we finally arrived at our holiday cottage in County Cork, Ireland it was impossible to tell what the surrounding area looked like. The inside of the cottage though was warm and comfy once we got the radiators turned on. After our trip across the Irish Sea we took a quick tour of the house and then made our way to bed. Santa was on his way after all!

The next morning we awoke to some incredible views and took a tour of our accommodations for the next week.

Grandma Theresa's blanket was just at home in the Irish Cottage!

We also made a new friend. We didn't know his name for the first four days we were there but he was always outside our door when we got up in the morning. We called him George and he followed us literally everywhere. 

For Christmas day we decided to drive out to the Dingle Peninsula, which will feature in our next post. Our lovely hosts had shared the upcoming weather forecast with and since Christmas day was one of the few that would be dominated by clear sky and sunshine we decided to push our Christmas turkey dinner to Boxing Day instead.

Boxing Day started out rather overcast and a little windy but it was at least dry enough to stroll around the farm our cottage belonged to. We were told we could go anywhere on the property we wanted as long as we left the sheep in peace. This was by no means a difficult instruction to follow as anytime we got within 50 yards of the field the sheep were on they immediately turned tail and made their way to the extreme opposite side of their pasture. Apparently they did not want to be friends.

After our walk around we started in on our Christmas dinner, and it was great.

The last few days at the cottage were spent traveling to different areas of southern Ireland seeing things like Blarney Castle and kissing some stones, Cobh where the Titanic made its final stop,  and the Rock of Cashel where St Patrick is believed to have converted the King of Munster to Christianity in the 5^th century. More on those excursions to come.