SLAINTE “slawn-che” (cheers!)

by safarisogood

“God created alcohol to stop the Irish from ruling the world.”

We took a tour of the Jamison Whiskey Factory on Wednesday, June 27th. Lexi was working and Amanda opted not to come. None of us liked the whiskey, but the tour was very interesting.

Our tour guide.

I poured Michael a special bottle of Black Barrel whiskey with a personalized label!

We ate and drank our way through Ireland. We ate mostly at Pubs and pastry/tea shops, but we also had coffee and snacks at Starbucks on two mornings — why, you ask? Well, I’ll tell you! Because when you are catching tour buses early in the morning (i.e., before 9 am) there is nothing else open. Even the coffee/ pastry shops do not open early on the weekdays. Maybe because all the Pubs stay open late? Anyway, I’m not a beer drinker, but I took a real liking to the Orchard Thieves apple cider — it tastes light, sweet and refreshing and has just a little alcohol in it! So delicious. My preferred drink, iced tea, is almost unheard of and when I did find it (twice), it was pre-sweetened with lemon in it. At one pub, I LITERALLY ordered a whole pitcher of sweet iced tea and drank the whole thing by myself, except for maybe a half a cup, which KarenAnn drank.