Ireland Motorcycling Day 4

Most of us are on the same boat, some of us find a different route.

I went to a few castle ruins using Cardo.  After lunch at a Mount Usher Gardens, I was going to go to Sally Gap and see Lough Tay, but Unthank had other ideas.

We stopped right near a junction, and there was a shaded farm entrance.  I called AA recovery, and by the time we tracked down the recovery time, it was not possible for me to make the ferry.

He had a go at wriggling the wires but no joy.  The tow kit at their back can also tow motorcycle, at least I don't have to wait for another recovery.  He drove through some small roads with Unthank at the back, which is quite impressive.

I found some last minute lodging, went and settled in for the extra night in Ireland.

Ireland Motorcycling Day 3

I did not bother with breakfast this time.  I saw a windmill earlier, but it was marked as closed.  I went to have a look anyway, Cardo did well navigating,

I went to join the group at they first stopping point.  When we broke into two groups, the group riders in front of me lost us.  And Mark's maps were playing up, so we got there very late.

The lighthouse restaurant has seafood chowder, so I ordered one, and Mark saw it and wanted one too.  Whilst everyone earlier all had sandwich or scones.

We took a little ferry across the bay, and I part way with the group, I went to do some shopping.  I got some steaks and some chocolate.  We went home on the Cardo curvy, which were pretty good.

To complete the food shopping, I stopped at a local strawberry van and picked up some Wexford strawberries.

I had steak and chips for dinner, and the others learnt their lesson, found their own food earlier, only a few ordered the pizzas. Irish Sirlion is not like the one we call Sirloin, they are called strip steak, like the American.  They were pretty good. Strawberries were in varying ripeness, but in generally pretty good too.

We said goodbyes to people on a different boats, and went to pack and rest.

Ireland Motorcycling Day 2

I had some sausage and hashbrown, ie smashed up chips, for breakfast.  I had a look at the local beach, there were horse riding at the beach.

We set off for a ride.  It was a mountain ride.  The Cardo tracked my ride well. It was fun until we got a bit tired. The final stop, I got some local soft serve ice-cream.

I had a bath and more sausage and chips, whilst everyone was down at the restaurant waiting for their food.

Some of them were up for some board games, way past my bed time, so I passed.

Ireland Motorcycling Day 1

It was forecasted rain, and it came.  It sounded bad at the caravan, but it was actually very bad.

We woke up early.  We put on all our waterproof and rode down. In hindsight, we should have waited till the last minute.  We were drenched in that short 25 minute ride.  And there was no waiting room, so we stood in the rain for another hour.

We took off as much as we can when we got on the boat.  We slightly dried up when we disembark.

I was volunteered to lead the ride down.  We decided not to take the toll, so the city centre traffic jam had not been kind to us.

We stopped for a coffee and some cake, and by then, we decided we want to take the motorway to go straight down. 

When we got to the petrol station, we bumped into others, they said the on-site restaurant was not open, so I better get something.  I got sausages, chips and milk!

We settled in for the night and I had some sausage and chips. 

Ireland Motorcycling Day 0

I made my way to Anglesey the night before the sailing.  It was a long ride, and it was quite rainy, so it took a while.  I was tempted for a diversion of Welsh Food Centre, it was just about closing time when I arrive, so I just had a quick bite and a cup of tea.

We had some wood fire pizza by the coast, followed by some ice-cream.  They were okay.  The ice-cream was so hard that she cracked the cone, and I nearly dropped the whole thing, I caught it with my bare hand.

The caravan was fine, we were surrounded by cows.

Cardo Ride Walk On Water

I recorded a longer ride, except when it loses Internet, it also lost its position, so I appeared to be riding over body of water.

Repurposed Coat Hangaway

The hangaway portable coat stand has been consigned to the bin many years ago.  This year, we found a new purpose for it, umbrella stand. Not only the bottom half can be used as an umbrella stand, the top half too.  Another thing saved from the landfill.