Mark and I met up about 10am to try to iron out his flight to Amsterdam once the west coast trip is over for us. We grabbed a cab and headed for the airport. The car rental went fine and we were able to switch the manual for an automatic transmission, having forgotten ,when I booked it, that you’d have to switch gears with the left hand. He wasn’t too keen on that.
We’d been told that the trip from Cork to Waterville would take a couple of hours, however with stops and the cautious driving (no complaints from me.), it ended up taking us about 3.5hrs, we arrived about 3-330pm in the afternoon at the cottage.
It is very nice, simply decorated, but it has 1/1/2 baths, 3 bedrooms, a living room/dining area, and a large kitchen with all of the appliances, even a washer. It is up on a hill and overlooks Lake Currane (or Lough, pronounced lo). By far the most spectacular part about it is that it is full of perennial plants that we don’t see in our neck of the woods. Mom, you’d just die at the sight of the various rhododendrons. She has every colour you can imagine and they are in FULL bloom right now. If the weather would just get nicer, I could take pics for you that you just might be able to use for your cards. At night, given that there is not a lot of heat in the house, we were pretty chilly. There are two wall heaters and we had them cranked and the fire only had these black bricks, coal maybe? Anyhow, they don’t burn like wood and we both went to bed mostly because we were frozen! It’s called a cottage and it was just like being up at Canoe Lake some late August night!
We’d been told that the trip from Cork to Waterville would take a couple of hours, however with stops and the cautious driving (no complaints from me.), it ended up taking us about 3.5hrs, we arrived about 3-330pm in the afternoon at the cottage.
It is very nice, simply decorated, but it has 1/1/2 baths, 3 bedrooms, a living room/dining area, and a large kitchen with all of the appliances, even a washer. It is up on a hill and overlooks Lake Currane (or Lough, pronounced lo). By far the most spectacular part about it is that it is full of perennial plants that we don’t see in our neck of the woods. Mom, you’d just die at the sight of the various rhododendrons. She has every colour you can imagine and they are in FULL bloom right now. If the weather would just get nicer, I could take pics for you that you just might be able to use for your cards. At night, given that there is not a lot of heat in the house, we were pretty chilly. There are two wall heaters and we had them cranked and the fire only had these black bricks, coal maybe? Anyhow, they don’t burn like wood and we both went to bed mostly because we were frozen! It’s called a cottage and it was just like being up at Canoe Lake some late August night!
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