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[darlowolf64]

Dingle is only a couple of hours drive, on the west coast...

 

[Jabbawolf]

Off over to Ireland next week. Ferry into Dublin and they staying for a few days in Howth before driving over to Limerick for the rest of the week.
So any recommendations for places to visit across the isle while be great

Limerick has an area called Milk Market (or something like that) which is like a small Borough Market (though not quite so upmarket). Limerick is really just a city - not quaint. If you can be bothered, I’d keep driving and visit the Dingle Peninsula - very picturesque and great hiking.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Kinsale is supposed to be stunning.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Limerick has an area called Milk Market (or something like that) which is like a small Borough Market (though not quite so upmarket). Limerick is really just a city - not quaint. If you can be bothered, I’d keep driving and visit the Dingle Peninsula - very picturesque and great hiking.

 

[sycophantia]

Probably the best episode ever

 

[Jabbawolf]

Kinsale is supposed to be stunning.

It is, with a big foodie vibe.

 

[Dublin Drummer Wolf]

Off over to Ireland next week. Ferry into Dublin and they staying for a few days in Howth before driving over to Limerick for the rest of the week.
So any recommendations for places to visit across the isle while be great

Howth is gorgeous. Lots of lovely seafood restaurants dotted around the harbour. Also, try and do the cliff walk around the coast of it. Theres few different routes. Amazing views.

Howth Cliff Walk (Green Route) - Google Search

 

[Dublin Drummer Wolf]

Few more recommendations...
Malahide Castle (supposedly Ireland's most haunted)
Roe & Co Whiskey distillery tour
Guinness storehouse
Viking Splash tour
Kilmainham gaol


For food, theres a pub called O'Connells right at the end of the Harbour, where the cliff walk starts. Proper traditional place with amazing food. Try the Seafood pie.

 

[Kenny]

Howth is gorgeous. Lots of lovely seafood restaurants dotted around the harbour. Also, try and do the cliff walk around the coast of it. Theres few different routes. Amazing views.

Howth Cliff Walk (Green Route) - Google Search

Cheers. The apartment we are staying in is right on the harbour.

 

[Kenny]

Done the Guinness tour a couple of times already, so swerving that this time

 

[Wolf Hunting]

Been to Dublin a few times before but mainly because I liked handing over ridiculous amounts of money for small amounts of drinks. So going for the more relaxed side of thing when that way over


I am all over this!! Please tell me you drive a milk float at 5mph around the island?

As far as I'm aware Kenny, there are no vehicles on the Arran Islands, though you'll surely get a donkey pulling a cart.

 

[Wolf Hunting]

Cheers. The apartment we are staying in is right on the harbour.

Well, take lots of money, because they certainly know how to charge! Who doesn't like Fish and Chips? Well, you'll get that in around 50 places within and around the harbour, but they'll start you off at around €15 - 18 FFS!

 

[Wolf Hunting]

Cheers. The apartment we are staying in is right on the harbour.

If you are so minded, you can kill 2 birds here. There is a decent sized ferry boat (passengers only) and it goes regularly from Howth (pronounced Hoe th) to Dun Laoghaire (Pronounced Done Leary) which is also much bigger but a nice place to wander around particularly on a weekend when they have a big market in the big park on the big sea front. So you can wander around, get a pub lunch and catch a return sailing. They also do a 3 legged trip Howth - Dublin City - Dun Laoghaire Back to Howth.
I think the first one takes around an hour, maybe a bit less and it has a bar on it too.

 

[Wolf Hunting]

The Burren is an interesting landscape if you like that sort of thing, not far from Limerick.

The Burren is a fantastic place! Fucking miles of smooth limestone pavement sloping gently like the back of a great big whale, down to the sea, and when you stand towards the edge the nothing to see for miles,, not trees, no bushes, nothing in any direction, but there are huge cracks it, quite deep some of them every few yards around 6" wide and as you step blithely over them, look down! over the years they've filled up with sand and dust and wind blown soil and there are huge bunches of beautiful flowers hiding out of the wind. Gorgeous and endless varieties of plants tucked away in all of these cracks. But you cant see them until you step over the fissures and look down, amazing!

 

[Wolf Hunting]

Off over to Ireland next week. Ferry into Dublin and they staying for a few days in Howth before driving over to Limerick for the rest of the week.
So any recommendations for places to visit across the isle while be great

Depends what you're into... The Cliffs of Moher are brilliant. Warnings everywhere not to step over the fences, but you can if you want... you'll walk slowly and very carefully towards this big bit of flat rock at the very edge, I have to say, I'm not brave in these situations, so i dropped to my hands and knees for the last 6 feet..... then looked down over the edge. Fuck me! it's so high that the seas thrashing against the rocks are so far down its actually in slow motion! but when I first looked over, my sphincter closed up that tight that fast, it was nearly a week later till I could have a crap. There are 7 big cliffs going off miles into the Southern distance and they get a bit smaller as they go. And if you've plenty of money there are about 6 or 7 shops selling Arran jumpers and hand knitted things, mostly designed to capture the American market so you'll pay €70 to 120 for a jumper. There is a brilliant Interpretive Centre there built into the hill. Spent millions on that they did.

 

[Wolf Hunting]

If you go further south towards

Off over to Ireland next week. Ferry into Dublin and they staying for a few days in Howth before driving over to Limerick for the rest of the week.
So any recommendations for places to visit across the isle while be great

Tralee and Ballyheige and Ballybunion (Great Golf Course there) and follow the coast, there is, on a nice day, a stunning drive down the Dingle peninsula. Take the N86 out of Tralee and after a few miles it'll fork left and it'll climb... and climb and half way up if you look to the right you'll see the gentle curve of land sloping down to the sea to the right, and a million patchwork fields and drystone walls , it goes for miles. You'll go on to Dingle, stay left and go through Ventry, Dunquin where they filmed Ryan's Daughter and all along there you'll find tiny isolated beaches, beautifully clean sand, tucked away nice and private, entirely undeveloped. get your kit off all day and you'll never see another human being all day long, then you'll climb up over the Conair /Connor Pass and then you'll fall for about 3 miles. (On a bike you'd freewheel for ever) back to Tralee and home.

 

[Kenny]

Cheers! Better than the Visit Ireland website is this

 

[sycophantia]

The Burren is a fantastic place! Fucking miles of smooth limestone pavement sloping gently like the back of a great big whale, down to the sea, and when you stand towards the edge the nothing to see for miles,, not trees, no bushes, nothing in any direction, but there are huge cracks it, quite deep some of them every few yards around 6" wide and as you step blithely over them, look down! over the years they've filled up with sand and dust and wind blown soil and there are huge bunches of beautiful flowers hiding out of the wind. Gorgeous and endless varieties of plants tucked away in all of these cracks. But you cant see them until you step over the fissures and look down, amazing!

Are the Cliffs of Mohar in that vicinity too? been quite a few years since we've been to Ireland.

 

[Wolf Hunting]

Cheers! Better than the Visit Ireland website is this

The middle of Ireland is relatively flat and best ignored. Don't be wasting time exploring it, there are a few caves and thing and of course a million miles of hill walking to be found, (I use the word Hill somewhat loosely. There are a range of mountains towards the south called the Galtee Mountains, but if you mention these 'mountains' to anyone with fell walking or real mountain climbing experience, they'd just laugh at you but the middle of Ireland is just a platform for them to build motorways on to get you across it as fast as you can.

 

[Wolf Hunting]

Are the Cliffs of Mohar in that vicinity too? been quite a few years since we've been to Ireland.

Cliffs of Moher are roughly 40 mins south west of Galway, an hour or so North West of Limerick.
But on the way you kind of miss Kilrush and Kilkee harbours (Google them) and there's a nice Lighthouse right at the end of that peninsular at Loop Head. The west of Ireland is very gorgeous and scenic.
Whilst you're Googling, put the Burren into it and you'll see what I mean....)