Prior to leaving Killybegs we did a thirty minute walking tour of this town which seems to survive on its fishing business as there were quite a few large trawlers in the dock and of course fish was in abundance in restaurants around the town.
We left town in the direction of Donegal and then on to Ballyshannon and Sligo and finally arriving in Westport. The journey was very good and spoilt only by the huge amounts of rubbish dropped by car drivers and also a light rain and a heavy mist which obscured much of the mountain scenery.We stopped for lunch in a wayside diner which was good and continued to look at the ever increasing amount of new, but mostly empty, houses in groups or in large estates.
En-route we noticed large areas of peat bog which had been cut some recently and some quite some time ago but obviously this is an important business down here.
We finally arrived in Westport but missed the Hotel in the first time around on the one way system and then located the Clew Bay Hotel which describes itself a little differently to what I would do. The room was very dark and I had to order an extra light so as to be able to use the pc and the plugs and Internet plug where too far away from the desk to be easily accessible whilst the Loo was not man friendly and thoughts of castration come to mind if you don’t hold the lid up.We had checked Trip Advisor for restaurant advise and checked out the top four and felt that Mango, the Number 2, was what we wanted and the food was really good. We had sea bass filets cooked in a white wine sauce and other goodies in a foil wrap with fresh veggies and a nice bottle of wine and pricing was not to bad. Generally we are finding restaurant prices here about 15% lower than Weybridge and the quality much better than some of the Weybridge eateries.
So back home to the Hotel and met a couple doing a similar thing to us who gave us a leaflet for the flying boat museum near Limerick which had also been mentioned by friends in Florida and New Zealand.
And so to bed.
