Fireworks!

Saturday evening last was spent in Cork City watching the awakening ceremony for the Capital of Culture 2005. To be fair the fireworks were better than I expected. Despite not having a ticket for the any of the quays overlooking the actual display in the river, we got a good spot up on Anderson's Quay, next to Jury's Inn. It turned out that this was actually a great location to be. From where we were standing we had a perfect view of fireworks taking off from Collin's Barracks and also form the Cork Port. While our view of the river proceedings wasn't great, we were able to nip in and out of the bar in Jury's Inn to watch the television for a view of what was going on in the river itself.

If this is a sign of things to come in the year ahead, I look forward to it.