We rose early and ate some french toast for breakfast. Luckily we didn’t stay too far from the Cliff of Moher and were able to take a second crack at it. The morning was filled with a crisp blue sky and we were off the earliest we had been since this trip has started. I guess that lazy rainy day did us some good!
We drove south back through “The Burren” and made our way to the cliffs. It was sooo windy!! The shop owners at the cliffs were worried about all of the wind. The views were amazing though. If there ever was a picture of the end of the world, this is it! 700ft of sheer cliff and then ocean waves crashing at the bottom. It doesn’t get any more mind boggling than this.
Only pictures can tell the tale.
After the cliffs we took a scenic route north towards the town of Doolin which is reknown for it’s traditional Irish music. Although we didn’t stay for the music, we simply wanted more views! We drove out to the town’s pier and onto this crazy limestone cliff. It looked like this is where George Lucas got his inspiration for the surface of the first Death Star, you know at the end of A New Hope and he’s flying his X-wing down the trenches. Awesome, I got some photos, of course!
After Doolin we went north again up to Blackhead. It’s another high mountain of just limestone rock. It’s no wonder that there are castles all over this place! So much easy to access building materials. I want to build one. We drove past a group of climber ascending a cliff face.
After this we made a way back up through Galway and on through to Clifden. Apparently there was a pony sale in Clifden because it’s a Bank Holiday weekend and I got stuck driving behind many slow trailers full of ponies. So Clifden was all booked up for the show. We stayed at the Abbey Glen Castle our only castle stay while in Ireland. I’ve got to say that the castle stay itself was a bit disappointing. Not much to tell about it, so I’ll just leave it at that.
We went into Clifden that evening for a meal and a drink and ran into some Americans that were chatty. We had a good time hanging out with these two at a pub filled with live music. Afterwards we called it a night. It was a long day of driving and site seeing.