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Breakfast at 7:30am and the bus leaves at 8:30am. The restaurant opened about 5 to 8 minutes late and they had a couple of big groups backed up to get in there. It can be hard to have a relaxing breakfast in an hour when there are a large number of people all trying to be in the same place doing the same thing at the same time.
Breakfast at 7:30am and the bus leaves at 8:30am. The restaurant opened about 5 to 8 minutes late and they had a couple of big groups backed up to get in there. It can be hard to have a relaxing breakfast in an hour when there are a large number of people all trying to be in the same place doing the same thing at the same time.
We drew a front row seat again today on the bus. Today we were behind Tommy. Today we went to Westport House, the local estate. You can click the hotlinked words for more information about it. The sun was shining this morning and the
wind was calm. Of course that didn’t last for long, only about as long as we were
inside touring the house. But, it happened.
We spent most of the day in sight of Croagh Patrick, pronounced croak. Tommy says it is the tallest point in Ireland (this
is not true) and is a pilgrimage site. We drove along the coast again and saw
the dramatic Atlantic. It is clear where all the bad weather is coming from
when you see those big angry seas. Fingers still crossed that there is an end
to this while we are still here.
We drove through Newport and Mulrany. We drove across a
bridge to the Island of Achill (sounds like ack-hill). We drove all around Achill Island
and had a lunch stop at a little place called the Beehive.
Then we drove to see
a deserted village. It was stone ruins near an old and a new cemetery on the side
of a hill called Slievemore. It was covered in sheep and lambs. We watched a
guy pull up in a car and let his Border Collie out and he directed him to drive
the sheep to different places. It was pretty amazing. It started really pouring
rain again as we were reloading the bus. It had rained off and on ever since we
left Westport House, but it rained solid all the way back to Westport. Clay opted
to be let off in Westport and I came back to the hotel. Others reported sleet
on the walk back.
Dinner tonight is at 6:30pm. Clay had salad and leg of lamb and ice cream.
I had goat cheese, chicken and sticky toffee pudding.
Bags out tomorrow morning at 6:50am, breakfast at 7am (which
should be interesting since their published opening time is 7:30am and they
were late today) and the bus leaves at 8am. We have a very long day tomorrow
visiting Connemara, and the Cliffs of Moher (it will hard to get any more
dramatic sea cliffs than what we’ve already seen, though seeing them with calm
seas and bright sunshine would be dramatic). We end at Bunratty Castle for one
night where at 8:30pm we’ll have a special medieval dinner.
