Day 3: Clonea & Dungarvan. Uninterrupted sleep, after a night like my first one, is one of the greatest pleasures. So thanks, Casey’s Camping & Caravanning, although the long bike ride did also play its part. Aileen and family were still fast asleep when I got up around 8, or at least their tent was […]
Day 2: Tagoat to Clonea 66 miles Last night wasn’t the perfect preparation for a long day on the bike that I’d hoped for. There was a weeping and wailing teenage girl in the tent next door. It was an unbelievably histrionic performance, and I must admit that the phrase ‘snowflake generation’ did go through […]
Day 1: Hertfordshire to Tagoat I quietly closed our front door at about five this morning and drove straight to Fishguard, 256 miles door to door, to catch the ferry over to Ireland again. There wasn’t a lot of planning, just a convenient gap in the work schedule and an okay or possibly even better […]
Just a short wrapping-up post today. It was a really beautiful morning, but with a crazily heavy dew, so I had to pack everything up pretty wet. It was just 6km to the ferry along the busy N25. It’s still only single lane though, and has an excellent bike lane. If you don’t mind the […]
Bonus Feature I had no idea about this, and decided to make a special edition of the blog today to highlight all of the amazing wall paintings. Hope you enjoy them as much as I did. Find out more, and see more of the art, by clicking the article below. Bx Here are 15 amazing […]
I don’t remember having enjoyed a day on the bike as much as I did today for a very long while. The sun was out, it was a ferry day, and I even got to play my ukulele in a town square. I have to say it was also tinged with sadness, because today was […]
Stats: It was only dry for about the first twenty minutes of packing up, then the weather turned. Not windy, not cold, just wet, in a very drizzly Irish sort of a way at first, but heavier later. The only place I found to post yesterday’s blog without soaking everything was under a railway tunnel, […]
An Unintended Late Night Swimming The day began with a coffee a the tent, then I cycled down to the beach for an early morning swim in the sea at Clonea Bay just as the tide was starting to come in. It was a very still morning with a mackerel sky and hardly a ripple […]
The day started early with a luxury breakfast preparation experience in my en-suite kitchen: And as I drank my coffee and looked at my tent, I realised for the first time in all the years I’ve been travelling with it, that if it was black instead of grey, it would be a dead ringer for […]
Stats and maps are back! I managed to get to sleep only once the lads in the field next to me finished their game of ‘How England Are Going To Lose To Spain On Sunday’. I’d spoken to the oldest lad, who was about 15 years old and sitting on his football having a rest, […]
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