Sunday

Today we got up a little late, had some breakfast and headed out to the car 🚘.  Our host family was having difficulties with their car getting wet inside.  The son had pulled out the back seats as they were wet as was the trunk area. Cory told them she was in the car industry and proceeded to look in the car ........... then she lay down on the ground and looked under the car much to their surprise.  She said she didn’t know how to fix 🚘 S but she did know how they looked when new.  She pointed out several things that were not original and suggested what they might do.  Cars are way more expensive over here.
We were going to go to Dublin but they said we would be better to go on a day when we got started earlier so suggested Kilkenny castle.   So off we went to see a castle.  They have been restoring the castle and there was hand painted wall paper, these huge paintings, most all of them portraits and the 4 huge tapestries that were hundreds of years old. When we go back through Kilkenny I am going to buy the book about the castle ................ that would be the one I should have bought when we were there. All in all it was a wonderful experience.
We also went shopping in the Kilkenny Design Centre which is across the street from the castle. The building used to be the castle horse stable and was full of amazing handcrafted items.  We did purchase items here and I fondled a lovely green sweater twice but didn’t buy.........this was a good thing .....you will see..
Oh yes we had lunch in the castle.
Time to get some food and head 🏡 it had been a lovely day with only a tiny bit of rain ☔️.
That evening Michel, the son , came over to fix the 📺 and we had a long talk with him which was really nice. They raise black angus cattle but may have to sell some of the cows this year as there was so little rain in the summer that there’s a shortage of feed. Apparently the neighbours cattle broke out Saturday night and were all around the main house and our cottage .............. we never heard a thing.