A restful nights sleep with the background roar of the River Sneem for company.
Wandered into Sneem (a minutes effort) from the Goosey Island Motorhome Park for an Irish Breakfast and then managed to avoid parting with cash at any of the tourist gift shops. This place is a stopping point for too many Ring of Kerry coaches. There are a few points of interest including this statue of an Irish Football star, John Egan, from the area, and also to Charles De Gaul who stayed in 1969 after resigning the French Presidency.
I was going to have a slob out day of achieving not a lot. The much improved weather gave me other ideas to get on my bike. Why else have I been lugging it around apart from trips (wobbles) to Paddy Coynes back in Connemara?
My target was to partly retrace yesterday's route and head back towards Caherdaniel. This would be along the N70. Normally I'd want to avoid what is considered a main arterial route. But traffic here is low and it could be considered a quieter than many of the South East England's B roads. Just that in places it is quite narrow, and a lot of solid white central lines. It would be around 34 miles there and back and around 1600ft of climbs (sorry to the metricated Irish). Overall around 4 hours total on the e-bike.
I was rewarded with various views of both the lower mountains and Kenmare Bay.
Derrynane Beach was down a smaller side road. Signed as unsuited to campervans but there were a few there and a large builder's delivery flatbed. Definitely no overnights and some height barriers. A busy sandy beach the car parks were being actively marshalled, possibly related to the nearby Derrynane House which is a stately home of a former politician important to Irish Catholicism rights of the 1800s.
Back to Sneem time for a rewarding ice cream and later pub meal with of course Guinness.
Wandered into Sneem (a minutes effort) from the Goosey Island Motorhome Park for an Irish Breakfast and then managed to avoid parting with cash at any of the tourist gift shops. This place is a stopping point for too many Ring of Kerry coaches. There are a few points of interest including this statue of an Irish Football star, John Egan, from the area, and also to Charles De Gaul who stayed in 1969 after resigning the French Presidency.
I was going to have a slob out day of achieving not a lot. The much improved weather gave me other ideas to get on my bike. Why else have I been lugging it around apart from trips (wobbles) to Paddy Coynes back in Connemara?
My target was to partly retrace yesterday's route and head back towards Caherdaniel. This would be along the N70. Normally I'd want to avoid what is considered a main arterial route. But traffic here is low and it could be considered a quieter than many of the South East England's B roads. Just that in places it is quite narrow, and a lot of solid white central lines. It would be around 34 miles there and back and around 1600ft of climbs (sorry to the metricated Irish). Overall around 4 hours total on the e-bike.
I was rewarded with various views of both the lower mountains and Kenmare Bay.
Derrynane Beach was down a smaller side road. Signed as unsuited to campervans but there were a few there and a large builder's delivery flatbed. Definitely no overnights and some height barriers. A busy sandy beach the car parks were being actively marshalled, possibly related to the nearby Derrynane House which is a stately home of a former politician important to Irish Catholicism rights of the 1800s.
Back to Sneem time for a rewarding ice cream and later pub meal with of course Guinness.
