Failte!!!!

Welcome to our Irish experience!!!

We are glad to announce that we finally arrived. At aprox. 16:00 (local hour) we landed in the Emerald Island. 

The weather was surprisingly good (lot of sunshine). 

We arrived at our hostel (quite an experience) and did our first steps in the city of Cork. Just a 40 minutes walk. Our main interests were Augustinian places. We first encountered Saint Augustine’s church, but we couldn't enter as Mass had already started. Nonetheless we took a photo from the door, where you can see something we say in our morning prayers (but in latin)

Then we headed for the old ruins of the Red abbey ( the Saint Augustine convent of the 13th century) Only the old tower remains. 

As it was getting dark we went for dinner to a pub. It was crouded, since it was Sunday. But we were really tired to complain. We went back to the hostel because on Monday we were having our first day in Mount Mercy school.

Slán