{"id":157,"date":"2014-01-21T13:01:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T13:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/?p=157"},"modified":"2014-04-04T06:50:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T06:50:03","slug":"day-trip-to-kinsale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"Day trip to Kinsale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bret already added a bunch of pictures from our trip to Kinsale<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Things started out a bit rough.\u00a0 The place we thought we would have breakfast at before we hopped on the bus turned out to be closed AND we saw our first 8am spill-out-of-the-pub brawl (that is there was a brawl spilling out of a pub when we walked by it, we were not spilling out of the pub at 8am).\u00a0 We found a scone and coffee before we jumped on the bus though, so things improved quickly.<\/p>\n

Kinsale is only about 15 miles away from Cork, but the bus ride took about an hour.\u00a0 It was very scenic.\u00a0 Our first adventure was a walk out to Charles Fort.\u00a0 The sun came out of hiding while were on the high road to the fort and stayed with us for the rest of the day!<\/p>\n

Charles Fort was built in in the late 1680s to protect the port of Kinsale from a naval attack.\u00a0 It was named in honor of King Charles II (who, by the way, had seven mistresses and 12 illegitimate children, but no heirs when he died in 1685).\u00a0 While the fort is considered an excellent example of 17th century pentagon forts, it was unable to withstand the only siege ever waged against it because it was vulnerable to land attacks (there is a big hill right behind it).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After Charles II died, his successor, James II (a Catholic), was ousted in favor William of Orange (a protestant).\u00a0 A war, the Williamite war (or the Jacobite war if you were for James II) ensued.\u00a0 The fort was a hold out for James II, but was taken by William of Orange’s forces after a 13 day siege.\u00a0 After that, the Brits used it as a military base until Irish Independence in 1921. The fort has been restored in the last few decades.\u00a0 It is pretty cool.\u00a0 Here are some of my pictures:<\/p>\n

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The lighting was so lovely.\u00a0 It really brought out the great texture of the place.<\/p>\n

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My favorites.<\/p>\n

The Sally Port!!<\/p>\n

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and my special friend…<\/p>\n

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It turns out Kinsale is the sister city to my hometown, Newport, RI.\u00a0 The grand re-opening of the White House restaurant was even attended by Patrick Kennedy.<\/p>\n

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Bret already added a bunch of pictures from our trip to Kinsale. Things started out a bit rough.\u00a0 The place we thought we would have breakfast at before we hopped on the bus turned out to be closed AND we saw our first 8am spill-out-of-the-pub brawl (that is there was a brawl spilling out of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kinsale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}