Wind and Rain October 10, 2006
We woke this morning to gale force winds and forecasted rain so we scrapped our plan to hike the Bray Head Trail. We did this reluctantly because the trail we read would take us by ancient religious sites, a ring fort and offer views of wildlife and the seashore. We head north tomorrow so this was our only chance to walk this path and we had to content ourselves with a coastal drive instead.
We drove to the post office in Ballinskelligs village because we spotted a sign advertising internet access as we drove by late yesterday after our drive to Killorglin looking for the same. It took almost two hours but we found a hotel in Paris on line and made our reservation. We have been using Expedia for most of these large city accommodations and so far it has worked out well. The problem with Paris is that there are 56 pages of hotels listed. Each page has about 12 listings. It took a while to sort through these but as I said we finally found one near the Arc de Triomphe which will put us close to the center of the city and most of the sites we want to visit.
We next drove to the village of Waterville where we had a pub lunch and watched the locals come and go. Everyone seemed to linger, I suppose because of the weather or maybe because the speed of life in this small waterside village is slower than we are used to.
From there we drove around the coast to Sneem. Along the way we were treated to what a sign told us was the most famous view in Ireland. It is a sea view overlooking a small peninsula that forms a keyhole harbor that holds maybe a half a dozen boats secure from wind and wave. We reached Sneem and found it was a stop for the tour busses that ply Ireland’s roads. The surprise was the number of busses that were there this late in the season. We stopped at the post office there to mail a package home. The post office in Ballinskelligs didn’t have any shipping boxes so we tried here and were able to mail the package.
We headed back to Bolus head and the cottage hoping to beat the really bad weather. It was a tie, just as we arrived the wind picked up even more with the rain starting again. The wind is roaring around the cottage and the sea below is tumultuous. Now we are sitting next to the peat fire and watching a TV show about a man that calls himself a river rat. He lives on the upper Mississippi River making a living hunting, fishing and gathering whatever he can find to eat. It’s a BBC special and it makes us a little homesick. We have been on the road for four months now with two more to go, but with France, Germany and Italy coming up we’ll be home before we know it.
We drove to the post office in Ballinskelligs village because we spotted a sign advertising internet access as we drove by late yesterday after our drive to Killorglin looking for the same. It took almost two hours but we found a hotel in Paris on line and made our reservation. We have been using Expedia for most of these large city accommodations and so far it has worked out well. The problem with Paris is that there are 56 pages of hotels listed. Each page has about 12 listings. It took a while to sort through these but as I said we finally found one near the Arc de Triomphe which will put us close to the center of the city and most of the sites we want to visit.
We next drove to the village of Waterville where we had a pub lunch and watched the locals come and go. Everyone seemed to linger, I suppose because of the weather or maybe because the speed of life in this small waterside village is slower than we are used to.
From there we drove around the coast to Sneem. Along the way we were treated to what a sign told us was the most famous view in Ireland. It is a sea view overlooking a small peninsula that forms a keyhole harbor that holds maybe a half a dozen boats secure from wind and wave. We reached Sneem and found it was a stop for the tour busses that ply Ireland’s roads. The surprise was the number of busses that were there this late in the season. We stopped at the post office there to mail a package home. The post office in Ballinskelligs didn’t have any shipping boxes so we tried here and were able to mail the package.
We headed back to Bolus head and the cottage hoping to beat the really bad weather. It was a tie, just as we arrived the wind picked up even more with the rain starting again. The wind is roaring around the cottage and the sea below is tumultuous. Now we are sitting next to the peat fire and watching a TV show about a man that calls himself a river rat. He lives on the upper Mississippi River making a living hunting, fishing and gathering whatever he can find to eat. It’s a BBC special and it makes us a little homesick. We have been on the road for four months now with two more to go, but with France, Germany and Italy coming up we’ll be home before we know it.
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