Well, it started raining about an hour ago -- but it felt like it was going to rain all afternoon. I'm lucky it didn't start pouring while I was still wandering around the city.
I decided to go someplace I hadn't been when I was here the first time. St Anne's Church, home of the Shandon Bells. It's called "the four faced liar" since the times of the clocks on the bell tower are notoriously out of sync. You can sort of see that in the photo.
The neighborhood around the church was much smaller than I expected -- everything was really close together (with very, very small streets). The church itself was also really small. I guess for a church that makes the guide books, I thought it would be bigger. The church is right by the Butter Museum. Which is, apparently, the main museum of Cork. I'm still trying to decide if that's worth a trip or not. Somehow the history of how butter made Cork an important trading centre doesn't seem all that interesting. But, as I'm going to hit up a bunch of touristy things in the coming week, I just might end up there. In fact, I should go make a list of things I want to see.
First batch of photos (a whole three!) are up on my Shutterfly account (http://kbarry.shutterfly.com) now.
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