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Ireland Day 4 - County Cork

Today we started with breakfast at the B&B at 8:00AM.  Breakfast consisted of a fresh omelet with ham, cherry tomatoes, cheese, and mushrooms, Jim didn’t have mushrooms in his, well as fresh scones and tea.  After breakfast we headed up to Blarney Castle. The drive up to Blarney Castle took about an hour.   Technically according to the tour company, and the voucher they gave us we should have done Blarney Castle tomorrow but that didn’t make sense with our plans.   Thankfully the castle took our voucher a day early.   We toured the castle; it took a bit over 45 minutes to get to the top of the castle. Way longer than it took me last time I visited Ireland back in 2006.   I didn’t kiss the Blarney Stone this time, but Jim kissed it. He was like it took us forever to get to the top, might as well kiss the stone.   The trip down was a lot faster. Then we walked through the poison garden, the stable area, and of course the gift shop.   By that t...