Cobh Travel Blogs

Some pics from my second trip to Ireland. 2007

Bought a ticket for 62 euro roundtrip from Dublin to Cove on the train.  However, we learned later that bus tickets were only 18 euro roundtrip, oopsy.  Newsflash: the Ireland country side is very green.  We choose to visit Cove (Cobh if you are Irish) because we could not find a hot…

This is from my 5 month stay in Ireland while studying Irish History

After my exam today I drove down to Fota Gardens and Arboretum near Cobh, Co. Cork. As is customary in my blogs, I got down there just before it was closing, so only got to spend half an hour there. The gardens are beautiful, and extremely peaceful. Located adjacent to Fota Wildlife Park, the garde…

(Originally published at http://www.troysgonewalkabout.com) First thing in the morning and we were back at Kilkenny Castle, but this time for a tour inside. The tour was of course packed with the usual interesting facts and figures of its rooms, furnishings, portraits and antiques rote-learned by …

Business trip to Ireland with some time off to Travel. I had a meeting in Dublin so I extended it and went to both Thomaston (county Kilkenny) and Cobh (County Cork)

First of all, I had no idea Cohb even existed, much less had so much history. It is a beautiful seaport town. Brenda and I ate lunch across the street from the dock where the Titanic launched. A small city, with crazy traffic, but what you would picture for a small Irish city. Cool, rainy, windy an…

what can i say, i can not wait to go back

Today was the day I had decided to make my first of 2 hikes while on vacation. I had decided to get up around 0700 and hike out to Charles Fort. I was giving myself 3 hours to make the hike, get back and take a shower, as I wanted to go on a day trip to Cobh (pronounced Cove). See my Hiking blogs f…

This is really a blog, I just wanted to share some pictures from my times in Europe.