Bye, bye Rachel...Hello Bella Vista!

To Rachel, our travel coordinator, since you’re following our blogs… you made our experience absolutely wonderful here. You will be missed greatly. I appreciate your time and assistance you offered to the group, but most of all I love that you are more than a tour guide, but a part of our group. I hope all is well with your family and wish you could be here to see how beautiful our hotel is literally inside and out.

St. Kevin’s Monastery was our next stop. The landscape interested me more than the religious cemetery, though I will admit it was beautiful, and I was happy to be surrounded with so many things that said my boyfriend’s name, Kevin, on them.

I slept on the three hour bus ride to Covb and awoke to a beautiful sight: lots and lots of green! We were concerned that the further we got from the city, the worse the accommodations would be, but that was a terrible assumption. As we neared Bella Vista hotel, we saw a gorgeous castle and an equally gorgeous island and were disappointed that we were unable to capture the view with our cameras because the bus was going too fast. To our surprise, we stopped right near the castle and pulled in the driveway of the luxurious hotel that Napoleon and many other famous people stayed in. We also learned that the island was the last place the Titanic sailed from.



In case you haven’t gotten the idea of how incredible the new hotel is, it has a full restaurant and bar; the suites have two bedrooms each containing three beds, two bathrooms---which I was told has hot water, a wonderful change from our last place, wireless Internet, another much needed improvement,

We had a group dinner at the restaurant in the hotel, which was delicious. Tomorrow we’re going to the radio station, to kiss the Blarney stone for good luck, and have the evening free…. I’m excited to take some more pictures of this beautiful hotel inside and out.