Ireland, been there seen that!

[somclan]

Cork and Kerry also sometimes have blue skies !

[Moto Bikemad]

Cork and Kerry also sometimes have blue skies!
Where did you take that picture?
Another sunny day on the "wee" island.

I managed to escape with Mrs Bikemad and get a run up the Coast Road, Larne to Portrush the A2.
Very little traffic until Bushmills and the Giants Causeway (hurray for visitors)

Had lunch in Portstewart and then home via Portglenone.



Portbraddon was nice. (Yes that is all of it)

[IslandMonkey]

Ah, The Ring of Kerry......Mannix Point has got to have one of the best campsites anywhere.

[ChubbyThumper]

Fanad head





Port Salon, gorse fires burning



Portsalon beach





Total gridlock







Glenveagh National park








Crolly, Mt Errigal in background






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St Johns Point Donegal



Slieve League










Gweedore




Mullaghmore head





INISHOWEN PENINSULA

[paddygogo]

Originally Posted by rymus

Having done it extensively over the last few years I'd recommend;

1. West Cork. Pretty much anywhere in West Cork. The road out to sheeps head is a good one, albeit a single track, windy, grass growing in the middle kind of road.

2. The ring of Kerry. All of it. Stopping for pancakes in Strawberry Fields (on the road past Barphinny lake at Molls Gap). Making sure to take in the Gap of Dunloe, Connor Pass and Valentia Island.

3. Donegal coast including a stop up at Malin head.


West Cork & Kerry are my favorites.

[somclan]

Blue sky in Kerry shot taken in Valentia Island County Kerry ... At this location

[somclan]

This is them !

[bubu]

For a different night, different feeling, with an agatha christie's spirit, you must sleep in the oldest irish hotel.

The leenane hotel
http://www.leenanehotel.com/

It's just amazing

[Frey Bentos]

Great thread people. We need to get more pics like these. It doesn't always rain in Ireland. (Bring waterproofs).
I have a couple of weeks off in September and am planning to take four or five days going from Malin head to Mizen Head via all the coast roads on the west coast. No matter how small.
I was feeling that I should piss off over to france for a week or ten days instead but after seeing these pics am all fired up again for this beautiful place I live in.

Donegal is twenty minutes ride from me. Slieve League is a particular favourite. For more desolate beauty, head through Glenculombkille and towards Port. It's a dead end wee road that has a small fishing pier and some absolutely feck off cliffs if you walk ten minutes.

[Countvonaltibar]

Lived in Ireland most of my life and you've just reminded me of the beauty of what's virtually on my own doorstop. Definitely a hard place to beat when the weather is good.

[somclan]

More of Kerry in the sun

[Blagadán]

A few from the Beara peninsula, taken last year.

[Frey Bentos]

Lovely photos chaps.

[Moto Bikemad]

Frey Bentos

If you are going to up to Malin Head Stay at The White Strand B and B.

http://www.whitestrand.net/

Just off the R 242 near the head and with in walking distance from the pub. Mary will look after you and makes great porridge.

Went last year with the mate on the bikes.
Let slip how good it was when I got home.
I had to go back with another mate and our wife’s two weeks later, on the bikes , ah well



This is The Wee House of Malin" is the little cave behind the ruins of the old church. Supposedly the home of a family - there is a saying that no matter how many people enter it holds all that enter it.
not far from the B and B.

[Frey Bentos]

Cheers Moto. Will look into it. The B&B, not the gert big hole...