Finally, after 15 years, I made it to the Waterford Crystal factory and showroom. When we were here in 1998 we arrived on Sunday and at that time they were not open on the weekends. Well, we made a special trip to go there and take the tour and drool over the pieces. If I was a multi-millionaire (notice I said multi) I would go and have nothing but Waterford in my house! We went though the factory with a glass cutter of 40 years as our guide and we were able to see the process from beginning to end. At the end of the tour we were in the engraving room and watched the engraver working on a piece and also looked over the pieces that were already done. When the tour was done we were left off in the retail store (of course) to browse and shop. Unfortunately the prices were WAY out of my price range.
If you look at the seahorse symbol you will see that the tail is curled the wrong way. It was changed so that the tail would form a shamrock shape.
A beautifully created Celtic harp.
The engraver doing what he does best.
After we left Waterford we drove back to Cork so that we could see that city and do some "tourist" shopping. When we were on our cruise last May of 2012 we stopped in the port city of Cobh (Cove) to see where the Titanic set sail from and walked around the town, but never got up to Cork which is only about 15 miles away. So we decided to take in Cork. And as we were there we finally gave in to an American lunch because we were really tired of fish and chips or tuna pannins. But we did eat 100% Irish beef!
We are now back in Dublin for the last few days before flying home. Tomorrow we are going to drive back up to No. Ireland and try and see if we can get in contact with some people that we hope are relatives of Karl. We tried before but they weren't home. We aren't sure if they are distant cousins of his or if the family has left the farm and sold to a different family altogether. We will see tomorrow.
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