It was my turn at the wheel today as we headed out for The Burren. We said goodbye to Betty, a wonderful host at our BnB in Doolin and pointed our rental car South along the Wild Atlantic Way. This highway has some similarities to the famous Western U.S. coastal highway, route 1, accept instead of a metal guard rail its a rock wall and instead of 12 feet, you have 10 feet or less for two cars and the occasional coach bus!
Despite some confusion we found our trail pull-out on the other side of Black Head. No signage at all, but we knew it was a lesser used access to the Blackhead Loop. We planned to do a shortened version of the Blackhead Loop (16 miles) by heading up the Caher Valley back to the coast to cut off 4 miles. Well.. we stopped for lunch in the Caher Valley, along a stream and when our bellies were full we looked up at the beautiful trail running up the mountain and lost all sense of which direction we should go. We followed that gorgeous line and found ourselves 4 miles later with the ocean on our left — whoopsie. No regrets as we descended back down to the coast at Farone Beach, knowing we could hitch hike back to our car. Neither of us were up for the 16 miles.
Sure enough, Igot a ride for 1 back to the car and I picked Andy up after we went for a short walk along with beautiful beach. Off we went along the most beautiful stretch of this Wild Atlantic Way to Ballyvaughan. We stored up on groceries before our destination of Kinvarra, at the Atlantic Retreat Lodge. How lovely to make a huge dinner of veggies, rice and chicken!
And.. I got the hang of driving and shifting on the left side quite quickly!
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