Grand Tour - Ireland - Day 715/2
We have to admit it: the Ring of Kerry doesn't excite us that much now. We have to drive much too fast with the current, all the viewpoints at the roadside are full of coaches and already we long for the solitude of the past peninsula.
A short stop at the legendary luxury hotel and a hike along the really beautiful coast here are still possible. When we ask at the hotel for a coffee on the cosy terrace, we are offered coffee in a paper cup. Since we generally reject paper cups and for once don't have our cups with us (who would expect paper cups in luxury hotels?) we turn around and get into our mobile coffee van.
At the last corner at the back we find what we are looking for. Here we enter the village. Then the narrow one-lane cul-de-sac to the end. I navigate Gerd to the pier of a tiny harbour.
We stand a little off to the side on the grassy green verge, set up our chairs in Felix's lee and take a look out at the sea.
In the course of the entire afternoon, three or four cars drive by.
There is a sign on the pier: "Fishing competition today". Aha. Four participants go out to sea on small boats, they return hours later. They are weighed and measured. The event is over, the people go home again.
We pump up our SUP and I am happy about the wind-protected bay, about the small island that has to be circumnavigated and about the meditative calm that grips me outside on the almost mirror-smooth Atlantic.
Later in the evening, I realise that neglecting sport over the last few months has not been the best idea. Climbing over the ground in bed is completely inelegant thanks to sore limbs.
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Beautiful pictures nonetheless.
And who needs a luxury hotel when you can bring your own?
Ohh yes, we think that so often. We used to smile at the people who rave about van life. Today we delight in the great front gardens that are given to us. <3
But we have nothing, absolutely nothing, against luxury hotels 😉 We're not a hotelier.
Greetings!
You said it!
I repeat myself again: indescribably beautiful photos that make you want to visit Ireland.
I find the luxury hotel with the paper cups more of a rip-off... how much more inviting your beautifully laid table on the coast!!!!
Many thanks Sabine ❣️
We agree, although we can also be luxury mice from time to time 🤣
Kind regards - Heike