Date: 19th July 2019
Travelled: 312 kilometres from Dublin to Cork
Visited: Cork
Stayed: Connemara Brittany Ferry, (Ringaskiddy Ferry Terminal N51.83251, W08.32056) to Santander, Spain
Budget: 40 days @ โฌ78 per day
Our driver arrives on time and we say goodbye to the Sun House and Akrotiri. Our scenic transfer to the airport ends 20 minutes later and we find ourselves consumed by the chaos that is Santorini airport. We queue just to enter the terminal building, that becomes the first of several queues we suffer as the afternoon passes. Thankfully we finally board our British Airways A320 and calm returns.
Our flights to Santorini were British Airways โCity Flyerโ and our return with British Airways. Apparently, City Flyer a subsidiary. If you have a choice go the City Flyer option the seat spacing, general comfort and service was much better.
We arrive in Dublin 20 minutes late, then wait almost 30 minutes for our luggage, which to our surprise was nearly the first on the carousel. We pay to have our parking ticket endorsed (โฌ10 per day) then head for the bus stop. The bus drops us close to the Hymer in the huge blue long term carpark just before mid-night. We quickly check the Hymer and load-up before heading for the ring-road.
Not wanting to spend another night near the airport we drive the 15 minutes to the Dublinโs Red Cow P+R and call it a night.
It drizzles most of the night it seems, but stops long enough for us to have a coffee and take the previous picture. The Red Cow is on the southern side of Dublin and we are soon heading south on the N7 for Cork.
Map of Cork, icon on the P+R
The bus driver drops us at the tourist office and we wander in get a map and some advise on which tourist walk to do given itโs already after 2 pm.
Looking down Saint Patrick Street. Cork has a buzz about it. 
The Father Mathew statue outside the tourist office.
Crossing the River Lee at the Shandon Bridge
The very Romanesque Church of St. Mary over looking the River Lee.
The Cathedral of St Mary and St Anne. 
St Anneโs Church
Confusing isnโt it…
Well thatโs Ireland, 5 weeks of majestic scenery, grey mornings and sunny afternoons, free overnight stops, Guinness in quirky pubs where everyone has a brother, cousin or uncle laying bricks in Melbourne. We make the short drive to Ringaskiddy and wait in the queue for the ferry to Spain.
Michael and Pam
