My penultimate day in Ireland was spent in the southwest. I left the hotel car park and stopped at the petrol station next door for fuel and snacks. Killarney was a couple of hours from Limerick.
Up early, I walked up the road for coffee before heading south. Fun fact, the feature image from the Galway post was actually taken today, and not yesterday. I knew where the yellow and blue houses were and made sure I got a good photos of them.
I left the maps on ‘avoid tolls’ – I wasn’t sure it was going to add much time to the drive, or how to pay the tolls at this point, so it just became a thing that I would avoid all tolls. I headed south following the coast before turning slightly inland and heading higher. I passed through The Burren with its limestone hills and stopped to enjoy the view, in both directions, down the valley and up into the hills.
My hotel was a little way from the city centre so I enjoyed a ~20min walk into town looking for coffee. There were quite a few interesting houses along the main road, and a wonderful bluestone wall.
When I was planning my short trip in Ireland I was worried about how much driving I would be doing by myself, and how long it would take me to get around the different parts I wanted to see. I originally planned to stop about half way across, but when I actually planned the route it wasn’t nearly as far as Canberra to Melbourne. It looks a lot further on the map, all the way across the island to the other side, but easily doable in a single day.
