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Photos (from top left): 1. Lisa at the Titanic Experience. 2. The Cliffs of Moher. 3. Molly Malone Statue in Dublin (evidently touching her is a thing). 4. An Irish Church. (photo credits: Erin Elllwood).
We finally did it. We shipped Lisa off to her ancestral home of Ireland, where she rubbed buxom statues, tramped the moors around castles, peered over majestic cliffs, and visited the Titanic Experience in Cobh, Ireland– the port from which Titanic's last passengers departed. Lisa’s journey was a quest for history, culture, beauty, and one more connection with our North Star. While Beatrice Wood was not a passenger on that ill-fated ship, she became tied to the folklore when James Cameron used her rebellious, uncompromising, and romantic nature as the inspiration for the character “Rose” in his 1997 film Titanic.
Lisa did a lot on her trip. But, when you see her on the street and she's thirty minutes deep into the minutia of her experience, thank your lucky charms that she was too busy to make it to the Blarney stone, where, in return for kissing the rock, the smoocher is rewarded with the eternal “gift of the gab.” Only the luck of the Irish saved us from that fate.
Erin Go Bragh,
Heather
Co-Founder of Beato Chocolates