June 16, 2017 Cork, Ireland

 

Today we visit Cork and in order to do so we dock in Cobb, Ireland home of the last port of call of the Titanic. 

In order to visit Cork we took a train for the 25 minute ride. Cost 9.90 Euros.

Some fellow travellers were taking the ship's excursion to the Blarney Stone. Since it was a strenuous tour we passed on it.

The train arrived at the station and then we went out looking for the Hop On Hop off Bus and our destination was the English Market.

Cork train station

The English market was like a giant farmers market with restaurants and butcher shops.

https://www.corkcity.ie/en/english-market/

https://xyuandbeyond.com/english-market-cork-ireland/

We bought a dishtowel, some Greek sweets (loukouma) and I had a sausage for lunch. It was a cool place to visit.

Afterwards we walked in the town for a while and then hopped on the bus to go back to the train station.

Cork Starbucks

We got off in Cobb and it was an easy walk to go to the center of town.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobh

We walked around hoping to find a table and chairs at a pub but all were packed so we headed back to the ship.

We had a nice slow paced day and enjoyed seeing the local towns and countryside.