There and Back Again

Pondering: There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen. (Sean O’Faolain)

This is our last night in Killarney (Cill Airne in Gaelic, meaning Church of the Sloes). The B&B we are staying in is not the most comfortable but it will do. The Town Center is only a few minutes away by foot and it’s just energetic! There are loads of places to eat though none of them looked appealing to us tonight. We ended up at this weird restaurant along main street with a facade of a pub, an interior of a Chinese restauant you would find in Daly City, California and a half type-written and half hand-written menu of Irish hodge-podge and loads of sea food. It seemed like a favorite of locals and tourists alike though I found the food so-so.

It is very nice to just walk around the town center. You can eyeball all the tourists who, like us, tend to study the menus posted outside restaurants a little too long before moving on or deciding. That is the purpose of the menu after all. Anyway, it’s also nice to just walk up and down the main street, enjoy some Irish music playing from every corner and enjoying the last bit of sun that peeks in between dark clouds.

Tomorrow we do one more trip and then it’s back to Dublin for another two days. I dread, dread, dread the thought of this whole trip ending.