*POST UPDATED OCTOBER 2026
You’re probably thinking, how does one come to spend seven hours in Cork? Well. It takes three hours to drive from Dublin city centre to Cork. It also takes forty minutes to get from where I live into Dublin city centre. Let’s not forget walking time, which we shall average at around thirteen minutes. If you’ve been calculating, that’s three hours & fifty-three minutes, one way. A return journey in the same day brings the total travel time to roughly seven hours & forty-six minutes, without delays. Yes, any rational person would extend their visit to include a night in Cork, so as not to spend more time travelling to a city than actually being in a city. Clearly, I am not a very rational person.
See, I didn’t really have a choice – one of my best friends lives in Cork. And by the time I got around to visiting her, she’d been there for nearly a year. A whole year. I was getting awfully close to entering worst-best-friend-ever territory, so I decided to remedy this. One fine Tuesday – on my day off – I got up at an ungodly hour & jumped on the second bus of the morning to Cork. No amount of coffee on earth could have gotten me on the first bus. She met me off the bus & we proceeded to jam a whole day’s worth of exploring into seven short hours.
where to get coffee
