Wednesday turned out mostly cloudy, a little hazy sun, and no rain. We’ll take that. We decided to drive a little more of the Wild Atlantic Way (WAW). As an aside, the WAW runs the whole west coast of Ireland, starting in about Kinsale in the SW and going all the way to Greencastle in the NW (1,600 miles). It runs right through Dingle on the way. And it follows the Donegal coast all the way around. Key sights are marked with the traditional WAW signpost that you’ve seen in many of the pictures, perhaps without noticing them:
We started off backtracking to our day one visit, going through Burtonport and going on to the Airport. That’s where we turned around on the previous day. Today it is the starting point for the blog. Donegal Airport, the only airport in County Donegal, is a one runway affair with one terminal/admin building. The only scheduled flights are on Emerald Air, a subsidiary of Aer Lingus, with daily flights to Dublin and Loganair with daily flights to Glasgow during the summer. We saw one Emerald Air plane there in our various trips past. A private plane flew by today but didn’t land. Because of the adjacent beach, the airport was voted the world’s most scenic landing spot in 2018, 2019, and 2020. Near the airport we drove down a VERY narrow road for a couple of miles and didn’t see much (nothing ventured, nothin gained) except for an oyster farming operation and a cow. Oysters are big business in Donegal.
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Practically next to the airport is Carrickfin Beach (Trá na Carraige Finne), a blue flag beach. There were lots of live snails crawling around. Escargot for dinner, anyone?
We drove a long way along the coast, stopping here and there, before heading back to our house. The scenery is just breathtaking. Here are the photo results of the rest of the drive including a stop for lunch, a visit to a church to light candles, a sighting of a strange license plate, and the ocean views.
To wind up today, here are some pictures of the inside of our now messy house/cottage. Also included is a picture (or two) of tonight’s peat fire. And there is Elaine’s picture of fat me reposing after dinner. And another picture of another sunset. Dinner was at home: leftovers from our last meal. See you tomorrow.
Donegal is very pretty, not as lovely as Dingle but we remember seeing the Harbor restaurant as we approached town from te south. Went to the castle and loved the Olde Castle Bar where Kris had oysters on her birthday vigil and birthday. Our tour group was housed for 2 nights in the Mill Park Hotel which was surprisingly very comfy and they had a nice restaurant setting. LOVE your pix, feels like October all over again for us!
What a nice day for a very beautiful ride. Now I understand the reason for the design of those scenic landmark posts – WAW.
The cottage looks very cozy with the fireplace. And you both look very comfortable. You do not look fat, Joe.
What a wonderful day on the WAW! You two look so rested and happy (in addition to being cold from the wind)…
HI right back at you Elaine. Scenery is different from the cliffs in Dingle, but still lovely. The house is great, nice fire to keep you warm. We have your Irish weather as it rained before we left for Flagstaff and has rained each day since we have been back. Bill not happy, today’s golf game cancelled!