Sunday 2 May 2010

Its Late Sunday Afternoon And The Living is Easy

Hitting Killarney within 40 minutes of the rally finishing is just not recommended.  We sat for 10-15 minutes in the queues and then called it quits - parking the Scoob up near the main church and then heading off for a wander around the Killarney National Park.

Killarney's Main Church (click to enlarge)












The National Park is a joy - a fabulous resource for locals to walk their dogs, picnic, exercise, take some family time etc.  Its somewhat larger than we were expecting so it gave us a good bit of walking to burn off some of those pints of Smithwick's!  From the town to the lake shore is about 1.5 miles and we get there as the lowering Sun gives us some stunning lighting across the smooth waters.

Killarney National Park (click to enlarge)





































We eventually head back to the B&B and pack our gear ready for the early morning run out to Dun Laoghaire.  We eat at the Holiday Inn next door and the food is OK, but John's steak knocks him back 18 Euros.  I have some Guiness, which wasn't as heavy as I expected - John stuck with Smithwick's.

We have another look around town and have a couple in Danny's bar where there's a band playing that aren't quite up to the same standard as Thursday evening and take themselves somewhat more seriously.  The town's much quieter tonight - must of the rally population seems to have headed for home already.  We don't go to the prize giving as it starts quite late and we've got to be out early for the ferry in the morning.

We've had a great weekend's sport and we have a bit of a discussion about the merits of Irish tarmac rallying.  There's no doubt that the competition is good but we conclude on this - the rallying's not been as good as the Tour of Mull, but the atmosphere and the craic are second to none.  We wonder if Donegal combines both and think that might be a plan for another year...

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