Our townhouse. First floor was storage for the Boland's News-shop, we had the top two floors
The Bolands built the town house adjacent to their news-shop and they lived above in the spacious apartment on the two upper floors.
When my wife and I retired to Florida in December 2000, we had already decided not to be there in the summer. Hot, humid, lots of flying objects, with most people hunkered down beside an air conditioner; that was not our idea of a vigorous retirement. A few years before we had experimented with seasonal rentals, taking a month vacation in Carmel California. For us, taking a month off was a big deal, but we were getting ready to pull the plug, anyway. We liked our experience in Carmel, and after some discussion decided that Ireland would be the destination for our first summer away from Florida. How we ended up in Kinsale, Country Cork is part of the lessons learned on our first "cruise" so to speak. Suffice to say we came up smelling like roses, or shamrocks. This is a picture of our first summertime rental. A new townhouse, across from the quay, providing us with two floors of in town living, parking space for the car, walk to everything, all new furnishings, and landlords, The Bolands who became close friends. Our experience in Ireland set the bar high for future years, while forming in our minds what our criteria for the next ten years of rentals would be.
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