Made it! Mizen head to Malin head, Ireland end to end.Of course it rained during the last leg also very strong headwind blasting into my face made it a bit more challenging! rain stopped and made mistake of thinking it could be ok to walk 15 min to supermarket.outside Supermarket it lashed down ! Which is why i am sitting the hostel in my swimming shorts-the only piece of dry clothing i have left...
Early start from Donegal.Rain again,for most of the morning.Arrived Letter Kelly before lunch,had to wait in town 3hrs for my laundry. Cycle Speedo shows 815.80 miles.Current location N55 08.659 W007 27.164 Tullyarvan Mill Hostel,Buncrana
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.
Early start today and made relatively good progress.Speedo shows 699.94 miles (59 miles today).Current location N54 16.944 W008 27.772.Found a nice place to stay in Sligo,uni halls.Nice kitchen so I cooked pasta and cream and white wine sauce with Quorn pieces cooked and mixed in.Yoghurts for starters with Brie and raspberry jam for afters. It is long walk to town and shops so had to make do with what I could carry on a 20 min hike. Wether overcast and cold wind (8C+max)allday,however I seemed to have a bit of sunburn on neck,even though I had my coat on most of the day.Txt from Jon all the chaps out in town so missing this a little. Although some super Irish bands in pubs last couple of evevenings.Plan to head north on way to Donegal tomorow.
Today I decided on shorter day as late start and tired from Fridays cycle,Also it is the weekend so as I learnt from Friday things book up very fast at the weekend.Cycled Galway to Castlebar ,speedo shows 640.11miles which is 56 miles today. Weather cloudy and only little rain late afternoon.Pity I missed meeting up with Rosemarys friend Tracey but sometimes these things are difficult to sort out when cycling.
Longer cycle today.Started in Kilrush finished in Galway.Speedo shows 586.18 (so 82.77 miles cycled today). I didnt expect to get all the way to Galway today.I arrived at about 6pm,no hostels had space,BB in city asking very high prices,so eventually found nice one called Tara house at about 7.30 in Salthill (west of centre).Wont have time to find pub and leave message for Dave and Nicole.Breakfast at 8.30 so will be late start tommorow,maybe 9am.Current location N53 15.817 W09 04.376.Galway was as far north that i thought i would make but now I'm here i will try and go further North tommorow.However left knee giving me some pain.
Not many pics today as almost constant day of rain.The pic here is from the gap of Dunloe (yesterday).Today I cycled just over 62 miles (speedo reads 503.44). Kilarney to tralee to trabert FERRY across the Shannon then on to Kilrush. N52 38.257 W009 29.138. Basically it has switched from sunshine and keep raining after Munch sent me a txt hoping the weather would improve!
