Day 2...

The morning weather must have known that we would have outdoor activities planned. The near perfect cloudless sky soon became gray and the rains came. This wasn't the misty rain I'm used to here, but a driving rain that wet us to our cores.

We were not deterred from our visit to the Rock of Cashel, and spent some time soaking in the ruins and the Irish rain.

 

Stone carvings at the Rock of Cashel

Ruins of the church at the Rock of Cashel.

After the Rock of Cashel we moved on to Waterford to have lunch and a tour of the Waterford Crystal manufacturing plant. The tour was very cool. We were able to walk through the plant as the craftsmen were making product, and saw all of the steps of production. I love watching things being made so it was a really exciting opportunity to see craftsmen at work.

Glass blowing and forming.

We had a nice lunch at The Reg in Waterford before heading back toward Kilkenny for our evening pub crawl. We had a lovely day, and I'm looking forward to heading to Cork tomorrow.

Thanks for reading.

-ND