WATERFORD CRYSTAL
We spend the morning at Waterford Crystal, watching the artisan’s blow and shape molten glass into beautiful objects d’art.
From decanters, glasses and vases to trophies for major golf and tennis championships to the Millennium Ball used in New York’s Times Square and a beautiful crystal memorial to the Fire Fighter’s lost trying to save lives after the 9/11 tragedy. We were also given a private demonstration from a master craftsman, on the cutting of the Waterford exclusive patterns into a bowl. After a wander around the gift shop where all tours always seem to end, we looked at sending a set of lovely glasses or a vase home but decided to just take the memories with us instead, they are much cheaper and would be sure make it home intact. Our next destination was Cork and we wanted to be there before dark, and Josephine is not as fast as she looks so it was time for us to hit the road.
posted by Brian and Julie @ 4:55:00 AM
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