4th March-Just movin’ on
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| Port Magee |
The weather was a little grey this morning when we left Limerick and it got even foggier within then minutes and so we needed fog light back and front for perhaps the first hour. We arrived in Tralkee and then took the road to Killorglin where we take a country route and we also wanted to do the Ring of Kerry. So we continued until we came to the start of the route and the sun had burst through and after a while there seemed to be an awful lot of smoke in the sky from stuff burning on the mountains it appeared. We continued our drive through a variety of villages and eventually came to the road to Port Magee which had been recommended by Terry Wogan on his recent Irish Travels. This is a quiet fishing village again and it seemed pretty much closed until we came to a pub which had some activity in it and so we had a sandwich lunch and then continued on the very bad and bumpy like hell roads and we lost several teeth from all the jolting. We climbed up and down an and around and around the hills and finally late afternoon arrived in Kenmare where swe stayed at the Brook Lane Hotel which was very nice.We asked about the burning and this is another stupid EU law which requires farmers to burn gorse on the footpaths as if the paths are not free they do not get their cash. This creates many problems as some farmers seem to burn everything in site even endangering towns and vilages We had a nice dinner in the evening and then spent some time watching some 4OD repeat programs for a while before heading for bed. Tomorrow we go to Cork.
The weather was a little grey this morning when we left Limerick and it got even foggier within then minutes and so we needed fog light back and front for perhaps the first hour. We arrived in Tralkee and then took the road to Killorglin where we take a country route and we also wanted to do the Ring of Kerry. So we continued until we came to the start of the route and the sun had burst through and after a while there seemed to be an awful lot of smoke in the sky from stuff burning on the mountains it appeared. We continued our drive through a variety of villages and eventually came to the road to Port Magee which had been recommended by Terry Wogan on his recent Irish Travels. This is a quiet fishing village again and it seemed pretty much closed until we came to a pub which had some activity in it and so we had a sandwich lunch and then continued on the very bad and bumpy like hell roads and we lost several teeth from all the jolting. We climbed up and down an and around and around the hills and finally late afternoon arrived in Kenmare where swe stayed at the Brook Lane Hotel which was very nice.We asked about the burning and this is another stupid EU law which requires farmers to burn gorse on the footpaths as if the paths are not free they do not get their cash. This creates many problems as some farmers seem to burn everything in site even endangering towns and vilages We had a nice dinner in the evening and then spent some time watching some 4OD repeat programs for a while before heading for bed. Tomorrow we go to Cork.
