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, […]
The great English violinist Emanuel Hurwitz (1919-2006) once said to me during a lesson: “I think I can tell everything I need to know about a violinist by the time they’ve finished tuning”. I feel a similar way about campgrounds: I think I can tell everything I need to know about them once I’ve seen […]
Next week I’m going to be setting out on what I hope will be an intriguing, occasionally dry, nine-day, two-wheeled, Guinness-inspired, random solo camping exploration of the Counties of Wexford and Waterford in beautiful Southern Ireland. Unlike my long and sweltering trip down the US East Coast last summer, I have no obvious purpose for […]
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