The Last Hurrah for Crinkly - Euro tour (9/7-?) Day 27 Touring the land on the way to Kilkenny (10/3)

 Today I head to Kilkenny and there are some things that Marion wants to show me on the way up there so she takes me instead of me taking the bus like I originally planned which was incredibly nice of her. First stop was Cashel to see the castle on the hill (sprinkled a little bit before clearing up). They have periodic tours that you can join with your ticket so we take the tour that starts soon after we got there which was a great tour, lots of information about the historical context of the building. 

Made it to Cashel

Crinkly is ready to explore this bad boy

Crinkly made it inside the walls and is liking what he sees

Impressive stone all around

That building was closed cause of covid but looks impressive

Lets get this show on the road

Interesting to see an old church that is missing its roof

Lil bird friends chilling up high

theres something about rundown buildings thats charming

Crinkly checking out the cemetery

View of Cashel church from the cemetery

Crinkly enjoying the view

Other side of the church

We werent allowed in there

one last view before moving on

stumbled upon this church while leaving town, St John the baptist catholic church

As is normal, beautiful inside

With a nice organ to boot

Nice windows and lots of great design work

Church art for the win

Street art in Waterford, Crinkly likes this place

Beautiful buildings galore

Crinkly wants to ride a bicycle

More colors... cant stop wont stop

Old time feel in the heart of the colorful city

Clouds were looking intense

Wall art outside the food truck area we got lunch at

Didnt walk much in this town but the art was just everywhere

Cathedral Church of St. Canice is a cool looking church from the outside

St Canice's catholic church

Color made it look like the cross is burning

Such a dark organ for such a bright and light building

Random alley/road found while walking around

Who remembers this church?

In case anyone wants to know where Smithwicks is made

add butcher to the list

Crinkly checking out the statue

Beautiful lil town

Crinkly enjoying some bridge views

Backside of the castle

Awesome sky colors

Looks more like a painting than a photo

Getting some nice reflection pics with the sky

Looking back on the town from the walk

Crinkly wants to keep going, so on we go

Just chilling on a lil forest walk

Front of Kilkenny castle, I will need to come back and check this out

When I saw this I was just saying no... but in a few days Ill actually be here

When in Kilkenny, you support local beer :)

Finishing the beers I bought back in Cork

Because its up on the hill, it is incredibly windy in places so try not to get blown away. Its an incredibly beautiful place with views on the areas around it and the building itself is pretty impressive. After that, we head over to Waterford which has murals on the walls everywhere, a very artistic city which was great to see. We walk around a little bit and grab a delicious snack from this veggie food truck in the Pheonix yard market. After that, we head up to Kilkenny where I get dropped off at the hostel and get settled and say good bye to Marion. Walk around a bit, realizing that the churches in town are having evening mass. Walk along the canal for a bit and then get back into town and grab a halloumi cheese burger from the Istanbul BBQ house flaming great which is delicious. Halloumi cheese is something I will have a bunch on this trip and it is always so great. After finishing that, head over to Poc Fada to listen to a guitar player playing some modern music which was nice and a cool little sports bar as well (see my first football of the season). After having my beers there, I head back to the place to see if any of the places nearby the hostel are having music, which they arent, so go back to the place and have one of the beers I bought the other day in Cork before heading to bed.