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We arrived in Killarney to the drizzling rain, sort of has been a common theme throughout this trip :) we had no where booked so we drove around for awhile and Sean found one that he thought would be good -€30 per person per night - it was a older style house with each room named after a flower - we were in the fushia room - there was a family of Americans that were also staying there - we later found out that mum and dad were both in the army they were stationed in heidleberg in Germany, there oldest son was Sean and their youngest son was Liam and there was probably the same age difference between Sean and Liam so a bit spooky there.
Maureen was the lady who ran the b&b and she was lovely - she sat down and had a bit of a chat with us and told us of all good places to go and see while we were here.
First stop was Muckross House- a very palatial house sitting on 25,000 acres which is now the Killarney national park. We were only going to the do the house tour when we got there but we decided to go in one of the haunting cars around the estate. Our guide was Robert and he looked like a leprachaun and our horse's name was Suzie - Suzie didn't like to work too hard - I think her speciality was more to eat and to have a rest but Robert was really good value even singing as we went past some spectacular views and Suzie was just gorgeous. After the ride which lasted about 40 mins we went on the tour of the house which roughly took around an hour to do. Most of the furnishings inside the house are all original and as they were big on shooting there was a lot of mounted animal heads on the walls which I really didn't like but each to their own.
By the time the tour had finished it was already 2:30 and we still hadn't had lunch do we pulled into the nearest pub and had a reasonably light lunch as dinner really wouldn't be that far away!!
We returned back to the b&b after doing some touring around the town and had a little rest.
Around 7 we decided we would walk into town and find somewhere to have dinner. After walking back and forth we decided on The Laurels - we met an American couple - Rosie was a teacher and James was a chef - James had just recently cooked for Obama which was pretty impressive. They asked a lot of questions about Australia and certain aspects of living such as health and wages and they were really surprised just how well things are - when they told us that they basically get no benefits at all except if you pay through the teeth it makes you realize we really are the lucky country and it was a bit sad that they didn't realize we had our own currency - they thought we were on euros. So after a good 3 hrs of dinner and chatting it was time to call it a night and make our way home and hopefully to a good nights sleep.
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