Just Right

Day 27
I had thought that I was waking up early because I am a morning person. It turns out that I was just up because the other people at the hostel were waking me up. Because there wasn't anyone around to wake me up, I stayed in bed longer than I had expected.

Still, I followed my plan and headed to Kilkenny. I had meant to arrive no later than 2 pm, but didn't get there until almost 5 pm. It turned out that the hostel I had booked had been closed for renovations for several months. I was the first guest, and as I found out later that night, that I was the only guest. It was a bit humorous though when I asked the guy checking me in if I was the only one in my room. He flipped through a few pages in a book before telling me that I had the place to myself.

This was both great, and kinda sucked. Nice to have a quite room and my own shower, not good to not have anyone to hang out with that night. Kilkenny has a lot of really interesting pubs to check out and I would feel a bit odd doing it with out another person.

Despite my late arrival, I still had about 5 hours worth of daylight left. I walked slowly down the medieval streets. There isn't much to Kilkenny, just 6 or 7 main streets. I think I walked them all. Kilkenny is Ireland's best preserved medieval town and is absolutely adorable.

I decided at this point that just because I was alone didn't mean that I couldn't do a bit of a pub crawl. The first bar I found was called the Pump House. It was decorated in old adverts and beer posters. It was really pretty cool and came recommended by Let's Go. Still, it was empty and I decided to move on.

The second place I checked out came recommended by the guy at the hostel. I'm not really sure why. Marble City (the region around Kilkenny produces a rock that can be polished to look like marble), was sort of posh and more of a restaurant. I wasn't sure why he had recommended it. I grabbed a soda though and wrote a bit in my journal. While I was there a local couple, upon hearing my accent, recommended a third place to me. I finished up my soda and walked over.

Clears was a small place, I had walked right by and didn't notice it. What they had that the other pubs didn't have was live Irish music. This pub was just right. I stayed a bit here chatting with the locals and enjoying the music.

When I got back to the hostel it was very quite, except for the guy who had checked me in fooling around on You Tube. I ended up joining him and we spent some time showing each other our favorite You Tube bits.