Day 26 - Travel Day to Kilkenny, Ireland - September 25, 2025

We got breakfast in the room yesterday since it was only a $5 delivery fee with breakfast included! We realized too late and wish we had done this every day. We walked the other way around town for a little while and decided to go back to the lobby of our hotel to sit and wait for the train.

Taylor got a ham and cheese baguette for lunch and I opted for the ham and cheese toastie, we were both very pleased with our choices! It was time to board the train and we were there nice and early. We didn’t realize that tickets have assigned seats when you buy them, however ours did not since we bought the all day, any time ticket. We needed up having to stand for almost the full 2 hour train, and I wish we only made the mistake once.

We made our connection train in Kildare for Kilkenny! We booked the ticket while on the train from Galway to Kildare so we were able to pick our seats, but then we realized we didn’t know how to distinguish the carriages from one another. So alas we ended up standing for most the ride. Finally a couple of seats opened and it was nice to rest our feet and watch the Irish countryside zoom by.

After a very short (and cheap) taxi ride we were at our hotel! The whole city is very walkable but we didn’t want to go 20 mins with our luggage down the street. The hotel was extremely nice and there was actually a wedding there over the time we were there! The room was huge but definitely had quite the funky smell. All in all it was a very good deal for what we paid!

We decided to just have dinner at the hotel, Taylor got a salad while I opted for the chicken with chorizo pasta. This was actually one of my favorite meals that I had on the entire trip so far! The brownie was also fantastic. I think whenever they serve whip cream with the brownie it get multiple bonus points. This was also the first hotel we have stayed at that had American channels and we got to watch the new South Park episode live!

Off to explore the city tomorrow!

Ben :)