Blarney! What a weekend!
blarney
ˈblɑːni/
noun
noun: blarney
1.
talk which aims to charm, flatter, or persuade (often considered typical of Irish people).
I had to privilege of spending 3 days traveling the Irish South and Southeast with my mom and her best friend, Lina. On the first day, we stopped at Kilkenny which I had previously visited, but the moms loved seeing the castle there as well as the hub of hurling, one of the gaelic games in Ireland.
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| We had to stop and smell the Kilkenny roses, of course. |
After Kilkenny, we continued onto Waterford which is home to the world-renowned Waterford Crystals. I came face to face with a chandelier collection worth more than my college education!! We then continued into Cork which we had thought would be a small town known for being the last port the Titanic sailed out of, but that was Cobh. And we were in Cork. Which is a big city... It looks like New York City if New York City suddenly had its buildings cut down to be a maximum of 4 floors high! So then we got to Blarney, the namesake of today's post.
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| Ready to go up and kiss the Blarney Stone! |
Blarney, blarney, blarney. Blarney, to the Irish, is a nice way of calling someone out for their bullpoopy. It can also be used to describe the speeches of people who are pros at sucking up. For instance, sometimes I used to clean parts of the house randomly and complement my mom in the hopes of getting some extra money or going out with some friends, etc. If we were Irish, she would've called my complements a load of "blarney." Enough with the blarney rant... Let's move on to the big event: The Blarney Castle!
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| View of our BnB through the cold Irish mist. |
Legend has it that if you kiss the Blarney Stone, you will gain the gift of eloquence... So we kissed the rock, my mom, Lina, and I. Does this article sound more eloquent to you?? The tour of the castle was completed with a visit to the Blarney Castle poison gardens where they featured a wide variety of plants- many that we use today- explaining how they were once used and the effect they had when wrongly ingested/touched/employed. Our day ended in an adorable BnB in Doolin, the closest town to the Cliffs of Moher!
Stay tuned for another article about our 3-day adventure!
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