The View at the Roundabout Inn

I saw the cover of the Evening Echo today and had to smile. The Echo is the afternoon paper out of Cork City...you can hear the news sellers bellowing "Echo... Echo," each weekday afternoon up and down Patrick Street. But today's cover shot was an overhead of the Mallow roundabout on the N20 Cork to Limerick road. The headline declares, "Cork battles snow blitz," but there is maybe an inch or two of snow on the road and cars look to be gingerly passing through the roundabout past the yellow aptly named Roundabout Inn at a snail's pace. (I remember eating a breakfast there at the Inn with a friend one morning before heading off to Shannon Airport...lovely old wood in the dining room, maybe a fireplace, massive breakfast.) The poor Corkonians! Not ones to enjoy the "slaves" or farmers on tractors who cause long tailbacks on single lane roads. And now having to deal with a "snow blitz." They must be counting the days till spring and hoping to have their days of lashing rain back. Or better yet, summer...I remember summer there in 2006 when the temperatures in July reached about 70 degrees Fahrenheit and the headlines spoke of the "sweltering heat."