After waking up in our itty bitty guestroom, we headed down for the traditional Irish Breakfast. The breakfast area had recently been expanded and renovated, so we had been told by the owner of The White House the night before. We had been able to see it from our room's window above, and it was a nice area, with a lovely little stone patio... down we went and proceeded to have what must be described as the most ghastly meal of the trip - an Irish Breakfast most vile!!
Still rather hungry (but knowing there was always a Luna bar to be had once we got back in the car again), we headed off to see a bit of Kinsale. Most notably, we wanted to check out The Wine Museum at Desmond Castle. As it turns out, Kinsale was extreemly important in the early wine trades... you can read more about that here, if you like.
Following the streets ever upward, we reached Desmond Castle as a nice light rain started to fall. The word castle is probably misleading to most - having already seen 2 large and imposing castles in 2 days, we were braced for another round of serious stair-climbing and the like.
Yeah... not so much. 
The first shot is of the stairs going UP to the castle - The other is the castle itself.
Don't misunderstand, it was really quite a nifty little place, and the gentleman who was manning the desk and "tour starting point" could not have been nicer. Everything was most informative! Plus, there were all sorts of props and maps and dioramas and... it really was rather kitschy.
These are "prisoners" in one of the old cells in the castle - note the "rat"! What we couldn't capture were the lights and auto explaining the history, and adding ambient noises of moaning and the like. Not even going to bother with the American prisoner who was chained to a wall...
That's (acording to the map) right where we were in Ireland ~ Kinsale.
A bit goofy, to be sure, but the self-directed tour did provide us with numerous "action" shots, and even a few nice ones of town...
David is trying to steal his glass of wine!!
