Subject: greetings from Caherdaniel, Co Kerry, Ireland
Date: Tuesday, 9 September 2008 7:18 PM
G'day guys
The rain continues but the Guinness is just as good as ever. We're having an admin morning, having found a place to get the washing done (a laundrette in a Caravan Park nearby).
Travelling has been easy although the roads are a little below par (see pics later). We're in a B&B overlooking the sea -- fantastic views of the Beare Peninsula from our breakfast seats and from the upstairs bedroom window. Unfortunately the edge is taken off by the rain showers which come in periodically from the south.
Our encounters with the locals continue to be cordial and interesting, including an ernest discussion in a pub in Bandon with a local who could understand us perfectly but whose accent made it possible for us to understand one word in five or six only. We were discussing the national sport, hurling, we think.
Plugging on toward Dingle tomorrow, after visiting Killarney today and circulating anti-clockwise around the Ring of Kerry, as that is the way the tour buses travel and it's better to be going in the same direction than to meet one unexpectedly on a blind bend. Then it'll be down to the Blind Piper for a Guinness and a meal next to the open (coal briquette) fire.
Some pics:
Mary and I at breakfast this morning
Fantastic view of green Irish countryside from Rock of Cashel, a famous 2000 yr old defended site, in Tipperary. Ruined 12th century abbey in foreground.
Not so good view of discarded car bodies and rubbish overlooking the beautiful O'Carroll's Cove, Ring of Kerry. We won't let this happen at Noosa, will we?
Driving in Ireland. Pics taken from inside car. Many roads are very, very narrow -- even the "main" roads. If you look closely at the one above, you'll see an old gent on a pushbike at the top of the rise on our side of the road.
Typical entry into a village. Usually prominent is a pub, and another one or two over the road.
Regards
Kev & Mary Long
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