Well, that was a rough night! With Andrew falling sick half way through the night, I started getting concerned about our ability to get to Killarney. Unfortunately, he is the only one licensed to drive the car and it will be too hard to change that with Europcar. I went out and bought him some medication and topped up on our water and Sprite collection (luckily we were situated within walking distance of both a pharmacy and truck stop) and then asked the hotel if we could extend the hotel check out time from 11am to 1pm and they told me noon was as late as we could check out. An extra hour is better than nothing at all! After taking some medication and liquids Andrew was feeling a bit better and by that time I had mapped out all the places we could stop along the way if he felt sick or needed to use the restroom. At noon we were off to drive to Killarney! I did not take that many pictures as we took some backroads to make it easier for Andrew instead of being on the highway and him concentrating on driving on the left side of the road. Here are the few that I took:
It was easy to find the Park Place Apartments which I had booked and I was quite impressed that they actually were located where they said they were! So many times when a place to stay says they are “5 minutes from the main street” it means driving however this was walking distance to the area that we last stayed which was awesome! Here are some pictures of the Park Place Apartments that come closest to the type of accommodation that we stayed in which was a 1 bedroom suite. It contained a nice bedroom (although again one side of the bed was against the wall) with space and a chair, a long kitchen with a couch and two sitting chairs and a TV at the ends along with a kitchen table and most importantly a fridge and a European washer/dryer. We also had a terrace which we could go out onto or open the door to get fresh air.
While Andrew took a nap after the drive, I went downstairs to what I thought was a store to get some supplies. I was quite surprised to find out that it actually was a Polish store! So all the ingredients were in Polish! I got Andrew some bread (his request), some more water, apple juice and some yogurt for myself that looked good and came back to the apartment. At that point in time I had received a message to review the hotel that we had stayed at in Galway, so I told them how nice a room that we had, however how sick Andrew had gotten from eating their seafood chowder the night before. Almost immediately I was contacted with an apology and to let me know that he was not the only one who had gotten sick – there had been others and it seems Andrew had gotten food poisoning! I found it pretty interesting that within several days of each other I had consumed gluten and Andrew got food poisoning. Oh well, that is all over with now, lets move onto tomorrow – it is another day!
Here is our drive from north of Galway to Killarney where we are going to spend the next 3 days –
