After an excellent breakfast in the Hotel we headed out of Cork in the general direction of Kinsale but then changed our minds when w came across the Cork Coastal road which runs alongside the sea for quite some miles. Needless to say the road were still rather bumpy but we have worse. The coast is quite attractive in places with lots of small villages and fishing ports and then up in to the hills where there are still quite a few new housing zones.
We eventually came across a fishing town called Unionhall and something seemed to be happening as the road in to it was closed and there were signs indicating there was a charity event on. So we stopped and parked the car and walked in to the town to be confronted with about 80 Historic cars and also some historic and also some new tractors and then also a large group of motor cycles and all of whom were about to start a rally around the countryside until late evening as they were raising money for a local hospital.Some of the old cars were in good shape and we saw cars that Jennifer and I had owned when we were much younger, There were a number of Rover and Minis and Ford Cortina’s etc and so we spent some time looking around and taking photos.
We left there about one pm and headed back along the coast and stopped in a little cafe for a sandwich and then headed off to Kinsale which Jennifer and I had visited about 15 years ago when it was rather small and attractive but now it is a tourist twon with new shops and houses and and in our view totally ruined and so we did not stop and headed back to Cork Town.
We drove around Cork town for a while and the centre is quite small and the shops were still open but we both felt a little tired as the one hundred plus miles we had just covered was bumpy and very tiring.
So we got back to the Hotel around 5pm just in time to take a rest before taking dinner in the Hotel restaurant which was good. And then to bed.
