13th July Sea Day

13^th July 2015 – Sea Day

Well my phone didn’t turn up overnight so it has been officially reported as missing and all details recorded, if it is eventually handed in we will be notified and if not hopefully insurance may reimburse a little towards the cost of a new one. We will have to wait until New York to get a new one.

14^th July – Cobh, County Cork.

Overnight after leaving Southampton a sea fog set in so by maritime regulation the ships horn was sounded a long blast every minute. Fortunately it didn’t disturb us.

Although our schedule said Cork we actually berthed at the quaint port town of Cobh about 25 minutes from Cork by rail motor.

Apparently Cobh was the point where passengers were boarded on the ill-fated Titanic, needless to say there’s a museum and numerous references to the Titanic everywhere

Steady rain was falling as we went ashore to do our own walking tour so we decided to hop on the commuter train to Cork, theorising the weather may have improved by our return. I also wanted to find somewhere I could buy some Berocca as this lingering cough and whatever bug I have has got me feeling quite run down and lacking in go.

At least it did stop raining by the time we returned from Cork but we were left with a cool, overcast dull day to commence our walking tour following a basic ‘Old Town Map’ we had acquired. Later in our stroll Nancy read a café menu that had home made tomato and basil soup on special so we stopped in for lunch and it was delicious.

Fortified we lined up to do a greater tour of the town on the ‘Cobh Road Train’. This looked more like something you would take your kids on around some fun park but as it turned out it was very informative lasted about an hour and was hilariously commentated by a real character Irishman.   

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We had arranged to meet up with friends at the ‘Rob Roy’ a very old and famous pub where we ended up spending the rest of the afternoon drinking Murphy’s Stout and listening to a live Irish group of musicians. The place was packed with locals and ships passengers, everyone was in a happy mood it was a great atmosphere.

All aboard 1730 sailing for Dublin and the whole town turned out to see the ship off it really was great.