Our day yesterday started off with a nice drive through the mountains south of Kilorglin which have the tallest peaks in all of Ireland. Nigel and Bernie know this area very well and have shared with us many things that we would not find in a travel guide book, sorry Rick Steves!
We drove around Lough Caragh and then along the south of Dingle Bay, If I come back, maybe better, when I come back, I need to grab my boots and pack and get N&B to show me some of the trails that they walk/climb, this is as beautiful as anyplace I’ve seen. Whether you want mountains, hills, valleys or the coastline, County Kerry has it all.
Dingle Town is pretty much a tourist town and,for good reason. There are tours to see Fungie (a dolphin watching tour), Bay tours and other excursions. We arrived around 1300 and the town was packed with tour buses, the upside is there gone by 1700.
Our lodgings are at the Dingle Harbour Lodge which is on the way out of town headed towards Slea Head and up above the bay. They’re a converted hostel which is morphing into a sort of hybrid hotel. Our room is nice, has a great view and is quiet. No A/C though and its been unusually hot, 31C/87F but, that’s the way it goes.
After doing a cursory look at the town, we met B&N for dinner at the Boat Yard restaurant, they have one steak on the menu and otherwise, it’s seafood only. It’s very good seafood though. Bernie and I had the Lemon Sole, Susan had a Fish Pie and Nigel had the lonely steak on he menu. All of it was quite good. The joy was, as I’ve said before, what’s makes a meal great is not the food, it’s the people around the table. This meal was great.
We finished up the night looking for a Bar with music, we found some music but, maybe not tonight. We ended up at Foxy’s John’s which is a hardware store by day…I’m not kidding.
It was a good day with great friends!