Day 5 - Ferry Ride

Breakfast at Daly's house was nice - Kristin had baked beans on bread and tomatoes, while I had eggs, sausage, and bacon.

The dog incident
I am driving us from Daly's bed and breakfast to the ferry. Through a 30kmph zone, a dog tries to throw itself in front of the car, and keeps hunting the front bumper even while I do my best to miss it. Had I not swerved radically, we surely would have hit it.

O confused garmin!
While following the directions of the GPS navigator, we are led three turns into a housing tract with no outlet. When I drive out of it, the navigator takes us in a triangle of streets and leads us back into the tract.
We must stop and enter a different destination (the city name that the ferry will eventually take us to). Interestingly, the directions indeed tell us to board the ferry and go across the water.

The Ferry (Ireland ferry photos)
The ferry is literally pulling away from the pier as we arrive - we dig in for an hour wait.
Incidentally, the gps shows the purple line (which designates our path) going across the water. The written and vocal directions state to board the ferry. It is only odd to see the purple line going across the water because it is normally going along a road.

We spent lunchtime driving and snacking on Pringles.

Killarney, County Kerry
We arrive in Killarney where we will stay for three days, and unpack into our hotel.
After a lot of wandering through the city, we ate dinner at a restaurant called Mac's (Mac's Ice Cream)
Kristin had the vegetable stir fry (€9.95).
I had panini of the evening (€8.95), and a strawberry frozen margarita, which was very strong. They played blues music off an iPod hooked up to their speaker system - it sounded nice.

Bar downstairs in our hotel
I very much enjoyed this bar. It never had more than 3 or 4 other people in it at once. I was able to get an ale and read for an hour before bed, every night we were at this hotel.
I tried a new beer - Smithwick's lager. It has a very slight bitter taste, but the entire flavor is so light it's almost tough to tell it is a lager.

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