A long day today! Not much sleep due to Pricey thrashing around in the bed next to me - now there's a statement open to interpretation!. After a full Irish courtesy of Noreen, our hostess with the mostess, we hit the road around 9:45. I programmed the sat nav on the phone to take us the shortest way - first mistake of the day! The short cut turned out to be a hike through the Mullaghareirk mountains. Lots of short, steep ups and downs that sapped the legs for around 20 miles. Finally cleared them and headed north to Limerick, where the problems really started. The main issue was that both our map and the sat nav took us up the N7 out of Limerick. The N7 became the M7 two weeks ago (so we later learned). We simply couldn't find a way out, mainly due to the fact that the county council hadn't bothered to change the signs to reflect the new road. Eventually, we stumbled across the right road and headed on to Nenagh, our stop for the night. We reached it around 6:45, having lost about an hour getting out of Limerick. Dave and Nicky were already in the pub waiting to greet us with a pint, and we soon got to know Cathrine the chef, who cooked us up a storm and went on to entertain us with the brand of wit only found in the Emerald Isle.
Roadside clothing count
3 x single gloves
1 x single shoe
1 x pair of trousers (yes, really)
Nature watch
5 x crows (dead)
1 x magpie (dead)
1 x blackbird (dead)
1 x badger (dead)
Song of the day - "Zorbing"
