day 4

Day 4 began badly. The sun god that Simon had been praising on the previous days decided to pack up and move elsewhere. But we took it in our stride and packed up making our way back to Carrick village where we met eamon from the black roses who had agreed to be our guide for the day. Our first port of call was the cliffs(supposed to be the tallest in Europe, thought the cliffs of moher were the tallest but it would seem not) about 3km from Carrick. This was one scary journey let me tell ya, the road had either grass or gravel in it, neither of which are biker friendly, we nearly lost eamon on the way up when his front right brake decided to stop working and his VFR(only 6 months old) came to a stop about an inch from a 100 foot drop. Bob has it on video if ya don’t believe us. When we got to the top we were greeted by 2 bus loads of tourists, a beautiful view of the Atlantic, and very very wet sky’s. After a few quick pic’s we went back down the mountain said goodbye and thanks to Carrick and it’s friendly locals and headed up the coast. Passing through Glencolumbkille, Ardara, Narin, Maas, and Dungloe we had lunch in peppers in Gweedore and met up with Colm from the Islanders again to have a catch up. With only 30km or so to go we had a long lunch then powered onto Carrigart which was our final port of call, or at least we would have only bob got a flat tyre so it was out with the tyre weld to get us to the next village. Many thanks to Dexter for keeping the head and getting the job done right. Creeslough was the next town so we stopped at Moores garage on the Gweedore side where we were generously aided by Kieran in the tyre repair. It was at this point that we learned that Ivors (the place where bob had got his tyre) had put a 22” tube into a 21” tyre. thank you very much Ivor for wasting half our day by the way. But luckily Kieran had a spare 21” tube and installed it free of charge many thanks to him. We continued onto Carrigart and eventually found a camp site about 2km from Carrigart, put the houses up with great difficultly due to a large concentration of stones in the ground, then into carrigart for a quick bite. Eamon was due to stay the night with us, but had to leave us to bring the kids to school in the morning, many thanks to Eamon for the company and local knowledge. After the grub we headed back to the campsite and had a few pints in the local hotel, then straight to bed.