Doolin via Cliffs of Moher

Tuesday, 27 August 2019

The alarm went off at 7AM.  I must have been in a deep sleep because when I heard it go off, I didn't know what I was hearing.  Tim volunteered to shower first, so I got to sleep a bit more.  The plan was to leave by 8:30 AM, but the weather is rainy and foggy, so we will not be taking the planned mountain pass route.  With the fog, there won't be anything to see.  This will save us some time, so we are now not in such a rush.

With the drive over Conner Pass nixed, the next event is a 30 minute car ferry.  When we arrived, we were lucky that the next ferry was arriving within 10 minutes.  It arrived and we drove on.  It would have been a bit better if it wasn't raining, but it was still a nice ferry ride.

Ferry arriving

After the ferry, we decided to head straight to the B&B even though it would be hours too early to check-in.  We thought that the owner could at least let us know our options of what to do in the rain.  Our plan was to hike 3-5 hours, but we were unsure whether we should go along with hike due to the weather.

We arrived at the B&B just before 1 PM.  Our host John said that we could check in early.  He also told us that we should go ahead with our hiking plans, so we unloaded the car and drove into town for lunch before the hike.

Pretty nice room

While Christine, Barbra, and I ordered the seafood stew, Tim ordered Guinness Stew and a pint of Guinness.

Tim's Guinness themed lunch

After lunch we parked behind the Doolin Hotel where John told us to, and walked to the hiking trail.

View of Doolin as we walk up to the hiking trail.

As soon as we stepped foot of the Cliff of Moher trail, we were treated with this amazing view:

We continued hiking for 2 hours and 45 minutes and think we covered about 5 miles.  What an incredible hike with amazing views.

We arrived at the Cliffs of Moher visitor's center. This is where all the tour buses come to view the cliffs.  We made our way through the crowds and leaned that there was a shuttle bus that can take us back to Doolin.  Perfect.  We paid our €4 each, and boarded the shuttle at 5:30 PM.  We arrived back to the car a bit wet and muddy.  Barbra wanted to check out a gift shop we walked by on the way to the hike, so we drive there and spend about 30 minutes watching Barbra shop for an Irish wool sweater.

We arrived back to the B&B to change out of our wet clothes and head to dinner.  Back to town for a nice meal of Lamb Shank and seafood pasta (guess which one was my dinner).

After dinner we returned to the B&B before 9 PM which gives us plenty of time to get a good night's sleep.  Of course the sleep will be after I finish this blog.  Tomorrow we get on a 10 AM ferry to the Aran Island which we can see out the window of our B&B as seen in the next photo taken out our window.

​Until tomorrow...