How to Best Spend 48 Hours in Cork, Ireland

Cork City is over 800 years old and is an artisticwatch the Corkonians gearing up for the night
city home to the Cork Opera House andahead. Join them and pop your head into a lock of
numerous galleries and theatres. Snug bars hostingtaverns sampling a few Murphys Stout as you go,
impromptu traditional music sessions neighbourtry some of these for starters - An Spailpin
chic restaurants serving Atlantic catch and racksFanac, Sin E, Hi-B and the Franciscan Well
of Kerry lamb.Brewery.
Kick-start your day with a bombardment of theCommence your second day by waking up the
senses and take a leisurely stroll through theentire city by ringing the bells at St. Anne's whose
paradise that is the English Market. Stalls uponShandon Tower presides over the north bank of
stalls are packed into the market selling everythe River Lee. Pop into nearby Linehan's, the last
type of tasty delicacy. Grab a little bit offamily confectioner in the city and boost your
everything and head for Bishop Lucey Park for aenergies with an assortment of sweets. Jump on
delicious picnic. With full belly head for Cork Cityone of the open top bus tours of the city which
Gaol, a fantastic audio tour guides you around theheads out to Blarney Castle, tackle the spiral
cells relating grim tales of the nineteenth centurystaircases to the Blarney Stone, perched at the
penal system, be warned this is not for thesummit of this fifteenth century structure, plant a
faint-hearted! Whittle away the afternoon bysmacker on it and gain the gift of the gab. Duck
wandering through the Crawford Municipal Artback into the city and dine in fine surroundings in
Gallery which provides an excellent insight intothe exquisite Jacques Restaurant before taking a
Cork's cultural transition.show in the grandiose Cork Opera House or the
Grab an outside table at one of the many fineacclaimed Everyman Palace Theatre.
restaurants in the Huguenot Quarter, eat well and