After a noisy night at the hostel, we woke early to get a head start on using the kitchen. Our plan worked as we were the only ones up and cooking. With breakfast done and lunches made we headed off for today's adventures. We drove along the coast to a small town called Doolin, where …
Month: June 2019
The Green Team
We all had a great night's sleep at the house, waking to make a nice breakfast, lunch and packed up the car. We headed north out of Tobercurry. We aimed first for the town of Foxford to see the woolen mill. I thought it would provide a good juxtaposition to all the handweaving. Unfortunately, the …
The Neolithic Way
We began the day a mite earlier to get a head start. Up before the hostel crowd got to the kitchen, so we had the place to ourselves making breakfast and preparing our lunch for the road. Packed up we headed off toward Donegal town. We reached there rather quickly, considering we weren't on the …
Slieve League
It was a sleep in sort of morning. While the kids still slept I went down to the hostel kitchen for some coffee. There I met two middle aged brothers cycling parts of the Wild Atlantic Way. Not an easy thing to do considering there are no shoulders on the roads, the roads as I've …
The Start of the Wild Atlantic Way
We woke a bit late this morning as Mandy didn't feel the alarm she had set on vibrate. Not an issue. We got dressed and ready in no time and went to the hostel kitchen for breakfast. It was a lively place with most residents already there chowing down. We packed up the car and …
Back to the Republic
We woke before our alarm, so took our time getting ready to head downstairs for breakfast. We ate in the little sunroom, with the weather appearing fair to middling. Good enough. As a number of the Irish mentioned, as long as it is not raining, it's good enough. Works for us. We left the Causeway …