Frank's Road Trips: Ireland Road Trip, Day 7, September 28, 2013

Last night Babs and I were watching TV around nine and my IPhone was charging. All of a sudden there was a bang, a flash of fire, and all of the lights went out. When I got my flashlight out, I saw that the IPhone charging cable had blown out of the charger. I called the front desk and it took about 20 minutes and four trips by the night clerk fooling with various fuse boxes to correct the problem. That was our excitement for the night!

The weather was overcast but dry when we headed out for a drive around the Dingle Peninsula. Thankfully the roads started out as "normal", meaning the equivalent of a two way road, at least until we got onto the Dingle loop.

The Dingle Peninsula offers some spectacular sea coast vistas, as well as open range land, livestock and mountains. Our first stop was a place on the coast where there was large area of beach flanked by cliffs on one side..

The countryside is patchwork of hedge rows, cattle and sheep.

Because it is a peninsula we continue to get great views of the coast line. It is now raining fairly hard .

Roadside Shrine

As we get closer to the town of Dingle, the road narrows and the terrain flattens out some.

Water caves in the rocks

Dingle has a large waterfront filled with fishing boats. We stopped in Dingle for a bathroom break and to shop a little. We all got hotdogs from the Dingle Dog House, hot but that's about all that can be said for eating a hotdog in the rain.

From Dingle we took the ferry over to get to Ennis in County Claire.It was a large ferry that took both cars and semi-trucks.

After exiting the ferry we once again were on narrow roads that would be classified as one lane in the US. The main neighbors of the roads were cattle.

Across from our hotel was this church that had a hand as art in public places that children were playing on.

Tonight was Katy & Roberts birthday. Robert didn't come to Ireland so we will celebrate with him later. We all went to dinner, separate checks, and had a fantastic dinner. Jason and I had steak, Babs Monk fish, Joan Fish & Chips, not sure what Jim had, and Katy had lamb chops. We surprised Katy with a desert with a candle and the servers sang happy birthday.