6TH DAY-MEDIEVAL BANQUET

October 3, 2018

After the Cliffs of Moher, we headed to Ennis, where  is where are hotel was. After we got settled, we went to Knappogue Castle for a medieval style banquet.  It was very touristy, but fun.

In Ireland, this is what they say instead of watch your step

This what they call parking lots

Our table

We had to drink the soup out of the bowl. At least we got utensils for the main course.  In medieval times, they usually ate everything with their fingers and just tore meat off the bone with their mouths. UGH

6TH DAY-CLIFFS OF MOHER

October 3, 2018

The Cliffs of Moher is Ireland's most visited natural attraction with one million visitors a year. The cliffs rise to 702 ' at the highest point and range 5 miles per the Atlantic Ocean on the West Coast of Ireland. Weather wasn't very good that  day, very foggy, couldn't see very far. We  actually felt lucky, this was our first day of not very good weather.  Here is a brief description of how they were formed. About 320 million years ago, this area was much warmer and was situated at the mouth of a river. The river flowed down, bringing mud and sand with it and eventually dumping it all in this  area where it settled and formed the rock layers you see now. I bought some postcards to see the area since it was so foggy

As you can probably tell, these are the postcards

These are my photos

6TH DAY-FLYING BOAT MUSEUM

October 3, 2018

After leaving Killarney, we headed north to the Cliffs of Moher. 

 On our way there, we stopped  in Foynes, at the Foynes Flying Boat Museum. It has a full sized replica of the Boeing B314 Pan Am Clipper flying boat. Foynes was the hub of aviation activity between North America and Europe during WWII.   It was christened by Eleanor Roosevelt in 1939, becoming the 1st commercial passenger plane to fly between the US and Europe over the North Atlantic route.  It also carried Franklin Roosevelt to the historic Casablanca conference with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin in Jan 1943. It was very luxurious with a 14 seat dining room, honeymoon suite and sleeping berths for all passengers.  Certainly a lot different than today's planes, we only wish!!

They served 7 course meals out of this tiny galley.

Cockpit certainly looks alot different than today's planes

This is also the place that Irish Coffee was invented. In 1943, Chef Joe Sheridan, mixed a little Irish Whiskey in coffee to rejuvenate tired and cold passengers. The rest is history. Of course, we all had an authentic Irish coffee mixed the correct way. YUMMY