Mizen Head

Hi, it is your lazy blogger here again! :D

I have a few posts to do, hopefully will get them all done this week... first one is Mizen Head. My sister and her husband visited Ireland, and first they were a couple of days in Limerick. A friend of mine rented a car, and we did a day trip to Mizen Head. Luckily the weather was amazing, about as warm and sunny as possible in this country, so the visibility was also amazing. We left early in the morning, because it is a long drive, we left at 7 a.m and came back over 12 hours later.

Ireland is full of roads like this, and they are so charming.

 

First we stopped at Bantry, a town in West Cork, and I got to take my flower pics again :D

Then Mizen Head, the most south-westerly point of Ireland. They have Visitor Centre with a nice cafe, and you can buy tickets to cross the bridge to Signal Station. The ticket for adults is 7,50 €. It is a bit of a hike, especially when coming back since it is uphill... so wear comfortable shoes! At Signal Station there's exhibition how keepers' lived there, until 1993. I've heard it is possible to spot seals, dolphins and whales from there, but we didn't see any. We climbed the stairs to the highest lookout point, and had a lovely picnic there :) (tuna pizza, crackers, salad and white wine). As you can see, the view was spectacular. My sister and her husband were prepared for Ireland by rain ponchos, they did not expect to get sunburns :D.

99 steps really feels a lot more in that heat and sunshine...

On our way back we drove to Kinsale, and stopped there for a while. Kinsale is in County Cork, about 25 km from Cork City. It is definetely a summer city, and very beautiful!

Driving in Ireland is for the maniacs. The main roads are ok mostly, but regional and local roads are not... they are narrow and people drive like crazy. That is why there's a lot of traffic accidents, also fatal ones. On our way to Mizen Head there was also a lot of cyclists on the roads, and those fuckers really feel they own the roads. And I am a cyclist myself! They had a cycling event that day too, which meant even more cyclists on those narrow mountain roads. Passing anyone is very difficult because you can't see that far ahead, and the speed limit is usually 80. Here it means it is minimum speed.

I took a couple of days off last week, and went to Doolin on Wednesday, then to Inis Mor (Aran Islands) for one night, and to Dublin on Friday for one night. I also visited Dublin about two months ago, so I will write a post just about Dublin, and one about Doolin - Inis Mor.