Right before crossing the mountain range.
Facing Dingle and the Dingle Bay. Amazing? Yup!
After Connor Pass.
I know I know!
My future home!
The Dock
A friend we made. Look at that hair style!
Facing the Highlands.
The north sideEllen and moi were lucky enough to be granted free access to Jean's (Ellen's aunt) get-away house in Castlegregory; a minute town, about 2 hours southeast (considered and lengthy ride by Irish standards!) from Limerick, on the outskirts of Tralee (a somewhat bigger town on the west coast). This town dwells on the Dingle Peninsula, with the Tralee bay to the East and the Brandon Bay to the West. Castlegreagory may not be Cancun on Spring break, but it was loads of fun anyway. But... what made our incredibly long journey worthwhile is what lingers on the other side of Connor Pass (and the scenic route that led us to it), the Dingle Bay. This has got to be the most fabulous place in Ireland. Hills that seem to dive abruptly into the sea to the south and look up to highest peaks in Ireland to the north, added to a handful of islands that want to headbutt the horizon make this place completely magical. The vegetation changes from a rusty red underbrush on the Highlands to the luscious green grass of the hills, which makes them unmistakably Irish.
The only problem was getting there; Connor Pass is a challenging road that, from time to time, becomes an unmarked one-way road (this may not to be of any surprise to the Patagonians but it is quite a thing in the first world). Instead of yielding to the cars going up hill, one must yield to the crazy drivers first, then to the sheep and goats that seem to frequent the pass unrestricted and finally to the crazy cyclists that have nothing better to do but freeze their souls on the rugged landscape of Kerry. Ellen was the DD and, to my surprise, she did a remarkable job! Once over the mountains, Dingle is the first sign of human settlements. Dingle is quite a touristy town that, aside from tourism, relies heavily on fishing. We arrived there at noon, had lunch, walked for a good while and commenced our way back. The lovely sunny day that greeted us in the morning morphed into a typical Irish rainy and windy day. Regardless, here are some pictures from the pass and some evil sheep we encountered on the way to Dingle.
Look at those evil evil eyes!
"Are you scared?""Nah, I'm cool... I'm cool... Man it's bloody high!"
2 comments:
All I have to say is YES to pictures and awesome blogs!!! Let's have an exchange ok? You come to Asia and I'll go to... well... wherever you may be! Baha.
Ps. I replied to your post on my blog, fyi :D
...and that is a great idea!!!! Although, I do believe that you should be around whenever I visit Asia, at least for a little bit to show me around a bit. Honestly, I really have no idea where I'll be, but rest assured that whenever I do so, you'll be the first one to find out.
P.S: Wanderlust? Seriously? I mean, really?:)
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