Travel to Cork & Cobh: The Titanic’s last port of call

At last, we arrived in the final country of our summer holiday. Ireland was the initial reason I wanted to do this trip; I’d heard from several people and recall from when I did have vision, that Ireland was beautiful. I imagined foggy emerald green cliffs dropping down to the steel blue sea. I wanted this scenery memorialized on our wall at home. And this,, my friends, is how the idea for this summer holiday was born.We embarked on a three-day Ireland Rail Tour and looked forward to having someone else plan the remainder of our vacation. The first day of the rail tour took us to Cobh (pronounced “cove”), the Titanic’s last port of call (then called Queenstown) before it’d set sail across the Atlantic and met its fate in 1912.A depressing way to begin the Ireland leg, but we can’t ignore history. Our guide, Jonathan, said everyone falls in love with Ireland. Have you been? What did you think of the country and the people?