Arrived Donegal Cycle speedo says 754.81 miles - Location N 54 39.374 W oo8 07.511 -today started with about 3 hours of rain. Cycled up and down lots of hills - However during a few brief moments when the rain eased I was able to see some beautiful scenery. Briefly cycled through a little part of Northen ireland to town called Beleek (near to Bally Shannon) on the way up to Donegal. Cycled via a place called Manorhamilton. Had to remember that in NI they normally take pounds NOT euros! Also Irish road signs differ from NI roads signs so I was swapping from R roads to B roads and then back again ! Also I realized why some of the distances on the map are marked as RED instead of BLUE - the blue ones are kilometers (Northern Ireland roadsigns gives distances in Miles ) and the RED are Miles - (Ireland road signs shows distance in Kilometres) - which can be significant if you are cycling in the rain - i.e 5 is 8 ( 5 miles is 8 km, 10m is 16km etc ) ... especially when it is hilly ! - In evening met up with chappie from Holland called Rufus - he was still trying to get over Holland losing to Russia in the football European championships-- we walked into town and saw some live Irish Music - the pub was packed and had to squeeze in at the back but Music and atmosphere very cool.
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Just checked blog and see you are making good progress. Another rainy cycle trip but is it as bad as last year in UK? Will keep checking in now we are a bit more organised here - we have been flat out moving in and with Tony's new job. Watch that knee!
Louise, Tony and Alice
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