Last weekend in Cork

So we were starting to get ready to head home and the weekends were running out before we left - we had like three weekends left and we wanted to spend one in Dublin seeing the Dubs crowd, we were in Rome for one and .... well what better way to say goodbye to Ireland than go for a freezing walk up a mountain in Kerry in the pouring rain.

Now some people couldn't handle that - but my girl could do it at six months pregnant (or somewhere around there!) - WHAT A TOUGH COOKIE!

You can see she's got a bit of a bump at this stage but my doesn't she wear that bump well. So this is us walking around near Torc mountain. Only about four of us did this walk - the other's ....puck, puck, pwaaaaaack (those are chicken noises for the uninformed).

I couldn't take pics on the top of the mountain cos the wind was whipping in so fast and hard I would probably have damaged my camera.

So that was the Saturday....

And then on Sunday, Linda, Liam and Loughlin decided to take us for a drive around a bit of west Cork... which is stunning. There were spots of rain but nothing too bad and I managed to get a photie here and there.

This is a stunning spot and it turned out that we'd actually been here before... it is like something out of a famous five book... little fisherman's cove, beautiful surrounding area, etc.

The Cashman clan treated us to lunch at a lovely little spot and we sat by a fire and ate awaylooking out over the bay / inlet.

Bruiser and mom...

... then posed for a pic or two outside.

Then we went to one of the nicest beaches in Cork... and did the photo thing again. Had to take a million of this photo cos Cath kept closing her eyes at the vital moment... sigh.




And then Liam decided he wanted to be in a photo too...
The women were stealing all the spotlight!

This was the view the other way...



And then just like that, that was it. Linda and Liam... you rock... thanks for such a cool time... we'll never forget you or your kindness and we'll always have a bed for you at our place. Well, maybe not a bed, but a couch. Well, a blow up mattress. Look, the floor is really comfy once you get used to it too....