Passing on the Wild Atlantic Way
We don't spend all our time in the shed and recently I was given a handful of extra days off. It was a great early-year opportunity. After hosting riders around the Ring of Kerry and the southwestern Bere and Dingle peninsulas, I still can't get enough of Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way. With some unexpected time off, I jumped aboard Sherbert after booking a bed and breakfast in Baltimore and packing for an unknown number of days. We rode southwest from County Wexford to where the WAW starts at the Old Head of Kinsale. Day 1. Cold with showers The first hour dragged on. The roads are boringly familiar and a spring storm threatened to dampen my mood. Google Maps also did a sneaky route update, which cost me a pocket-searching toll to cross Waterford's River Suir. I approached Cork from its north and looked forward to my first stop and coffee break at the Lusitania Museum & Old Head Signal Tower. Arriving in the sunshine and blasted by an icy off-shore gale, I found ...