Romantic Towns

Kinsale is one of those places that looks immediately different before you can quite explain why. At first, it seems obvious. The colour. Turquoise shopfronts. Coral walls. Pink window frames. Mustard yellow doors. Deep navy façades. Flowers spilling from baskets. But spend a little longer looking at Kinsale and something else starts to emerge. The…

There are parts of Ireland that fit neatly into the picture most of us already have in our heads. Green hills. Grey skies. Stone cottages. Pubs where someone inevitably produces a fiddle. Then there is Kinsale. Tucked into the southern coast of County Cork, Kinsale looks as though somebody became slightly overenthusiastic with a paint…