Au Revoir Cork

One of the French guys, Gilles, from the office has decided to leave and travel for a while. Although I do not know Gilles well, I used his Leaving Do as an excuse to head down to Cork for the weekend. It started out a good morning, Tullia, Sean, Karen, myself and Tullia's friend Sinead were all packed and ready to head to the train station after work, but the afternoon turned sour when they announced more redundancies made here. We boarded the train sour and glum, but we made the best of the night. We headed to our hotel at the top of the hill, now I never knew there were hills in Ireland, but they are all over Cork! We headed into town to their local pub where I think every person in town was crammed into, and yet we crammed ourselves in as well. Hot whiskies were the drink of choice for the night as we stood outside on the street and drank in the open air. As the pub began to close we all headed to Gilles for more drinks, rice crispy buns, and general banter. We had balloon fights and drawing between the fishnet tights and some super cheesy eurotrash dancing taught to us by none other then the talented Tutti!

The next morning we did the touristy bits with Karen at the helm since she has been to Cork several times as Kerry is the county just over from it. We did the brunch with Gilles and the gang before the bus tour. It was a double decker open bus with the branches hitting us as we climbed up the hills. A drink was much needed to clean out the taste of bugs. We realised in the pub that Sean had a green shirt, I had a white shirt and Gilles had an orange shirt making up the Tri-colour flag. Picture taking moment and of course Gorgeous had to be in it as well! We got a bit of grub before going out on the lash but Karen and I petered out early as we were fighting off colds.

After a bit of shopping the next morning we headed back on the train. Sunshine followed us back to Dublin which was great!