Its now Saturday evening, we are in a stone cottage on the banks of Carlingford Lough just outside Dundalk. We arrived here yesterday afternoon for a 2 night stay and we really are liking it, though the cottage is very cold.
Its a authentic Irish cottage, built from stone maybe hundreds of years ago. It has central heating but it does not seem to do much to heat the place up. The views are beautiful though and we really like the location, though we are not that impressed with Dundalk itself which is about 10 miles away.
We looked around for houses for rent in this area, a couple have to-let signs and phone numbers that just go to answerphone, and a nice one is with an agent who does not give a phone number and has yet to answer my email from yesterday.
We have a house to go look at in Co.Cavan on Monday, so I booked another Airbnb stay as close as I can to the house, though its about 15 miles away in Ballinamore. With Airbnb it seems much cheaper to stay in a whole house than just a room in a hotel, and I have seen that with Airbnb I could if I wanted to rent a whole house for months on Airbnb with nobody questioning my employment or asking to check references. Its an attractive option, but for our immigration purposes we will need a proper lease agreement within 3 months and Airbnb does not offer that.
Nonetheless I am incredibly impressed with Airbnb, and our accommodation for now is much less expensive than our first few days in Dublin.
So, tonight we are keeping warm in front of an open fire in a stone cottage as we complete our first whole week in Ireland.
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