Saturday morning Gwen ask me what I wanted to do and I suggested that we do nothing and just hang out with the girls, cook a big tasty dinner and watch a movie. She agreed and we had a lovely lazy day. The car never left the driveway and the furthest I went was a walk into the town with the girls so Sarah could spend her tooth fairy money (she lost a tooth on Friday). She bought sweets/candy for herself and Anna and an Irish Times for me which I read in the Grey Hound.
Dinner on Saturday night was superb. We stuffed and roasted a lovely free range chicken. Gwen made the stuffing very traditionally using bread crumbs, fresh thyme, parsley, onions, butter, salt and pepper. We served it with potatoes roasted with the chicken and turnips boiled and then finished in pan with bacon fat and a really good homemade gravy made from the deglazed roasting dish and chicken stock. Simple but has to be one of the tastiest dinners we make.
After the girls went to sleep we took to the couch with a nice Rioja and watched "Adventureland".
Sunday was a lovely day, sun was shining, blue skies and relatively warm out so we hit the road heading west to Glandore and Union Hall. Gandore always sounds like a place on Harry Potter! We had heard it was lovely but did not expect how beautiful it was (see pictures below - its stunning). On the way we stopped at a Ford Model-T statue in Ballinascarty where Henry Ford's family emigrated from in 1847 (Cork to this day still loves Ford cars!).
