Good morning Cork! Today is a beautiful day to explore the city! After a wonderful breakfast at the Residence Inn, along with I had a discussion with the General Manager of the Residence Inn and Moxy Hotels regarding some accessibility issues, Andrew and I then decided to check out downtown Cork! Our plan was to head towards the English Market which is like Granville Island but in the middle of downtown Cork on the ground floor of several buildings. We also needed to patronize a bank machine as I have access to withdraw Euros when in Ireland, however when we go to Iceland we are going to need to exchange some Euros for Krona cash. Lastly, we needed to visit the Tesco grocery store to pick up some goods so we can hopefully make some meals in our little kitchen! Here are some pictures below that I took along our journey!
We were not able to spend much time in the English Market due to the smells of raw meat making Andrew not feel very well. We did walk into the dry goods section though and it reminded me of being in the Spice Market in Dubai – there were spice vendors (and others) there and the smell was wonderful!
Eventually after about 12,000 steps by me, we made it back to the Residence Inn to spend the evening. Andrew is starting to feel better now – perhaps the fresh air is helping him out – so we are thinking of going to the Blarney Castle tomorrow! We shall see what the weather is like first in the morning…