Today we are getting on the bus, after a really good breakfast that involved warm GF scones, to begin our drive along the scenic Ring of Kerry Road, which takes us to the edge of Ireland passing through quaint towns and villages such as Cahirsiveen and Sneem, and Moll’s Gap, a mountain pass that offers breathtaking views of the MacGillycuddy’s Reeks mountains. We had some good craic’ (fun) on the trip with a fill in driver as Adrian required a day off after 6 days. It was interesting to learn that busses can only go clockwise around the Ring of Kerry due to their size, where on a different trip along a different part of Ireland, they can only go counter clockwise. Padrik, our driver did an excellent job keeping the bus out of trouble! After a short time, we stopped at a bog Famine Village, which has been restored, so we could see what it was like back during that time (1845-1892) when Ireland population fell 20-25%. Andrew had some Irish coffee which did him well! After that visit, we were back on the bus for some amazing views around the northern part of the Ring of Kerry, until we stopped at a lovely pub half way round, where we were able to get some GF lunch and walk around, prior to getting back on the bus to complete the trip.
Ramp to sea – that was not usable!
In the evening, we had it free – so Anne, Richard, Andrew and I went for dinner in what looked to be a meat factory themed restaurant, lovely pictures on the wall, however the GF vegetarian Moroccan cauliflower dish spoke to 3 of us and we quite enjoyed it! Andrew of course, the meat and potatoes dude, had some type of meat dish. After dinner we went shopping so Anne could show me some ideas she had for the bus tour and small gifts – which we ended up getting! They are little puffy sheep on a keychain. For the people who did not want the sheep keychains she got some Guinness keychains instead. You can probably guess that Andrew and I have different keychains now 🙂
Now it is back to the hotel to get some rest! Tomorrow I hear there is wool shopping to be had!
Here was our drive around the Ring of Kerry –
