WHIRL2026 Day - 2

Day 2 started with a full Irish breakfast, what else?  The perfect start to the day you might think, though my electric toothbrush decided today was the day to give up the ghost!

Full Irish, Mmmm!

We hit the road just after 8:30. It was overcast but not cold. We had a few stops on the itinerary today, starting with Dungarvan Castle. A lady was just opening up as we got there so as well as photos outside, we got a couple inside too. Next up was supposed to be Yougal lighthouse. It's a private house, so not one you can visit. As it turned out, it was covered in scaffolding, so no photos there.

Dungarvan Castle

Our next stop was in Cork City, where we visited the Elizabeth Fort, named after Elizabeth I, followed by the English Market, an old market building but with plenty of modern artisanal stalls. We decided to have lunch there, picking gourmet sausages, basically a posh hotdog. Was very nice though, even if we had to walk outside and around the corner to find somewhere to sit and eat them.

Moving on from Cork, we stopped to photo the Chetwynd RailwayViaduct, now disused. I should mention that by this point the cloud had broken up and the temperature was rising rapidly. I was beginning to regret putting my thicker base layer on today.

From the viaduct it was a straight ride to our digs, interupted by a stop to take on some water. The final stint found us taking a typically small country road. When a road has grass growing up the middle, you know it's going to be interesting. It was ok though. We only came across one tractor! I chuckled to myself thinking that Grizzly has ridden thousands of miles across the country but I bet anything he'd never been down this road before!

Our digs are situated alongside what I suppose constitutes the Atlantic Ocean, though there's a few miles of this inlet before the open ocean. It's quite idyllic. Unfortuntaely though, it's a mile or so outside the town, so we had to walk into the town/village for our dinner. It was quite entertaining listening to the locals across the bar from each other putting the world to rights.

Not bad for an overnight stop, eh?

Tomorrow, we'll be doing the most southerly point of Ireland, then heading north to get on the Ring of Kerry.

Till tomorrow then.