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Kevin's Trip - Day 13 - Blarney Castle

August 09, 2007 // 0 Comments  // Add yours »

Kevin again.

We were allowed to sleep in late today. It was about time. Our first destination was the town of Blarney. Obviously, this is the home of the Blarney Stone. As a group, we climbed Blarney Castle to kiss the Blarney Stone at the top. The castle had many rooms that most of this group skipped. Jimmy and I kept leaving the staircase to explore the rooms. The staircase was very narrow and as we got higher the steps got narrower and we struggled to stay on the steps. Towards the top of the steps, Alex Oppel fell. We finally made it to the top where everyone was kissing the Blarney Stone. The Blarney Stone is built into the castle. In order to kiss it, you need to lay on your back, grab these bars and slide off a little bit. You bend your head back and kiss it. The distance from the floor to the wall is about 2 feet. In that space are two bars to keep you from falling to your death, but it was extremely terrifying to be practically hanging off a ledge with hundreds of feet below you. After I kissed it and Jimmy took a picture of me, we walked down some other stairs. We found a room that we think was the bathroom there is the this long hole on the ground which leads to outside. This wasn't a normal hole, it was in the shape of a lowercase "L". We think it was an old type of urinal. After taking pictures, we found another room with an extremely tight doorway. This room was situated above the doorway to the big room. This is where they would pour boiling liquids on intruders.

We left the castle in our small groups and made our way to a cave. It was awesome. There were no lights in there. It was completely dark and muddy. I used the flash from my camera to find my way. We took a bunch of pictures, a couple cool ones minus the flash, instead, using candlelight. We left, covered in mud, and found some lunch. Then we all drove for a while and took a rest stop in Cork. It was cool looking there by the river in cloudy weather. We didn't stay for long but went to Waterford, where our hotel was.

Our hotel was situated along a river. It was the nicest looking location for our hotel yet. I walked along the river and took some pictures of the swans there using Mr. Poppa's camera lense. I like how a lot of them come out.  Not much else happened today. We ate and went to sleep.

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