{"id":950,"date":"2010-08-07T17:15:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T23:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=950"},"modified":"2010-08-09T18:44:08","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T00:44:08","slug":"cruise-port-2-cork-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=950","title":{"rendered":"Cruise Port 2 &#8211; Cork, Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our second port of call was Cork, Ireland by way of Cobh (pronounced Cove or Cobe).\u00c2\u00a0 This was our first &#8220;on our own&#8221; tour, of course Princess offered plenty of tours but they are quite expensive so we saved money and went on our own.\u00c2\u00a0 This involved taking a commuter train from Cobh, where we docked, to Cork.\u00c2\u00a0 That part wasn&#8217;t so hard, but the journey from the Cork train station to central Cork (where all the walking and bus tours are located) was quite difficult for our group.\u00c2\u00a0 By the time we got to the tourist information shop, everyone was already exhausted.\u00c2\u00a0 We had planned to take a walking tour, the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Monks, Vikings and Normans Tour\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, however the tour guide appeared in front of the visitors center, and then disappeared too quickly.\u00c2\u00a0 We ended up taking a hop-on, hop-off bus tour.\u00c2\u00a0 After the HoHo tour, we met up with my friend and former co-worker <a href=\"http:\/\/petercox.ie\/\">Peter Cox<\/a> for lunch and great conversation.\u00c2\u00a0 Then, we made our way back to the train station (by cab, this time) and eventually to the ship.\u00c2\u00a0 Pictures <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.famille.org\/main.php?g2_itemId=7175\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our second port of call was Cork, Ireland by way of Cobh (pronounced Cove or Cobe).\u00c2\u00a0 This was our first &#8220;on our own&#8221; tour, of course Princess offered plenty of tours but they are quite expensive so we saved money and went on our own.\u00c2\u00a0 This involved taking a commuter train from Cobh, where we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}