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Beautiful St. Michael's Mount.

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An interesting thing happens on a Saturday of a bank holiday weekend: all the Brits break out their caravans that they have miraculously been storing somewhere (most garages are barely large enough for my Polo!) and head for the coast. We headed there with them, sans caravan, and went to Cornwall for the weekend. What a lovely way to start a trip... (ugh)

But, look at the beach in St Ives!

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David and Mirra on West Wittering Beach on our way home from Chichester.

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We went south of Cork today to Kinsale, a super cute sea side town (village) that I can imagine is absolutely packd during the summer months as it would be the most perfect place to spend a warm day/evening and I am jealous of those who are able to do so! We then went even further south to a place called The Old Head of Kinsale - a little peninsula sticky-outy bit on the southern coast. I am so glad we made it down there! It was absolutely beautiful and officially one of the most amazing places I have ever seen. There is a bit of controversy surrounding this place as the very tip of Old Head is a private golf club and closed to public access... what a shame. I think I'll join the protesting group and write some strongly worded letters to someone about this. Oh, also, there is a small memorial at Old Head because this is where the Lusitania was torpedoed, which, according to Wikipedia, was one of the main reasons the US entered WWI. There you go!

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David had a meeting in Cork (Ireland), so I went along for the ride. Saint Patrick's day is coming up and the Irish are already geared up for it. I shopped at the Irish version of Primark, tried some Murphy's Ale at the advice of a taxi driver who claims is one of those things that tastes different in Cork (it was established there, apparently), ate some Mexican food (much to my pleasant surprise!), giggled at signs in Gaelic and learned that there is a strong connection between Ireland and America that I somehow never understood before... (all while David was at his meeting!)