A Visit to Cork

On Saturday morning we took the 9:00 train down to Cork. Its on the Southwest side of Ireland. With out student travel card the train costed about 40euro, about half off from normal price. The city of Cork itself is like a mini-dublin. Complete with river a bit smaller than the liffey, same stores, etc. We stayed in hostel called Bru Bar Hostel. It was a lovely choice for our first hostel experience. It was pretty clean and the staff was very nice. They have a bar underneath and they give u free vouchers for pints. Good idea for getting people to stop in their bar, although it was among one of more popular bars not just for tourists. We roomed with a 3 German girls, who im pretty sure were talking mad shit about us in German...hhahha...slightly akward but they were very nice. After checking into the hostel we walked around city centre abit. Ate lunch it a restraunt called Zanzibar on St. Particks street, haha...def not the one from the song. But it was decent. They had a very wide variety of food. From burgers, to mexican etc. Then we caught a bus to the Blarney Castle, (bus cost about 5euro.) The Blarney Castle is amazingly beautiful. We kissed the Blarney Stone, explored the Castle, made wishes on the wishing steps, and checked out the grounds around the castle. Very good craic. Definitly worth the trip.
After that we headed back to city centre and then back to our hostel to get ready for the night. We started out in our hostels bar...very crowded with lots of locals. Then we went to Banaza, extremely crowded almost uncomfortably so. Since we were pretty wiped out that waant a very good choice. We left there and went to The Bailey. They played really great tunes, and while it was still a very full bar it had walking room and was defintly great craic. We finished the nite with a nitecap at our hostels bar which after a certain point is only open to people who are staying in the hostel...pretty sweet.
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