Category Walking E8

Day 23, Mucklagh hut – Glendalough

Weather: 🌫️ ☁️☁️🌤️☁️Lunch: 🍳🍳🥯🥯2nd breakfast + elevensies in Glenmalure lodgeTrack: ☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️ (5 out of 5, nice tracks, amazing views, lovely forest, a lake and an old monastery!)Irish wisdom of the day: Coffee is good, coffee and whiskey is betterDiner: 🍲🍲🍲🍲🍲…

Day 22, Tinahely – Mucklagh hut

Weather: 🌤️🌤️☁️☁️☁️Picnic: 🌯🌯🌯 (3 out of 5, reasonable spot, slightly sunny, lunch with wraps and bananas!)Track: ☘️☘️☘️☘️ (4 out of 5, nice tracks and roads, beautiful views, lovely forest and a hut at the end!)Reward of the day: 🍺🔥 finding…

Zeroday 4, Tinahely

We slept really well, and no alarm at 6 every once in a while is quite nice too! We got ourselves a healthy breakfast from the supermarket, got to do some chores and resupply and went for a late lunch.…

Day 21, 500 km Clonegall – Tinahely

Weather: 🌤️🌤️🌬️🌤️🌤️Picnic: 🌯🌯 (2 out of 5, reasonable spot to dry out the tent, lunch with leftover wraps and hardkeks)Track: ☘️☘️☘️☘️ (4 out of 5, nice tracks and roads, beautiful views and a surprise pub!)Milestone: 500 km!Hidden gem: the Dying…

Day 20, Leinster hill – Clonegall

Weather: ☁️🌤️🌤️🌧️🌤️Picnic-moment: we found a bench for picnic, but there was also a sign saying: ‘Food’ towards the pub 🤔😋Track: ☘️☘️☘️☘️(4 out of 5, nice tracks and roads, beautiful views and nice villages)Letdown of the day: the 9 stone row…

Day 19, Brandon hill – Leinster hill

Weather: ☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️Picnic: none, 2nd breakfast + lunch in towns along the way!)Track: ☘️☘️☘️☘️(4 out of 5, diverse tracks and roads. The part along the river with de locks was especially nice!)Campsite: ⛺⛺ (2 out of 5 sort of flat and…

Day 18, Lukewell – Brandon hill

Weather: 🌤️🌧️🌤️🌧️🌤️🌧️Picnic: 🌯🌯 (2 out of 5, ok and dry, until the hail started falling..)2nd lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 4 out of 5 sandwiches; good bacon and brie toasti at Woodstock arms bar, in InistiogeTrack: ☘️☘️☘️(3 out of 5, nice trails, a…

Day 17, Carrick-on-suir – Lukewell

Weather: ☁️☁️🌧️☁️🌧️🌬️☁️Picnic: none, unexpected indoor lunch in Mullinavat while waiting for the rain to stop)Track: ☘️☘️(2 out of 5, 30 km all tarmac roads. Not that interesting)Campsite 1st attempt:⛺🌬️ (none out of 5, bumpy, too small and almost got blown…

Day 16, Clonmel – Carrick-on-Suir

Weather: ☁️☁️🌤️🌤️🌤️Picnic: 🌯🌯🌯🛋️🥤, (4 out of 5 wraps, with a good bench, riverviews and a drink from the shop nearby!)Track: ☘️☘️☘️(3 out of 5, nice walk along the river)Campsite: ⛺⛺⛺🏰 (3 out of 5, flat, dry and overlooking a castle!…

Zeroday 3, Clonmel

So we slept in today! And had a no-oats breakfast! Although I’m now getting tired of the noodles more than of the oats this time… We went for a resupply at the big Tesco’s outside of the city, where they…