We woke up, ate breakfast, and headed out for an adventure. I'd seen pictures of the Cuillcagh Boardwalk hike and was dying to do it. The funniest thing was when you google the hike all the reviews whine about how no dogs are allowed. All the reviews are negative because of that. I guess Irish people LOVE hiking with their dogs? It is a great hike, dogs or no dogs. It goes across boggy moors and up a mountainside and the weather was so moody I one hundred percent thought we'd been transported into a Bronte novel. It was a really spectacular hike, and like all photo's they simply can't capture it.
We got rained on at the very end of the hike so we raced back to the car before we got drenched. Lucky timing. We headed to Donegal town with a stop at Tully Castle ruins.
We desperately needed to do laundry and none of our hotel's/airbnbs had laundry facilities. And laundromats are open at odd hours in Ireland for some reason. So we parked at a gas station in Donegal and did laundry for an hour and a half. The dryer did not work unfortunately and we spread out our wet clothes at the hotel that night. But it was grand to do laundry.
It was stormy and chilly when we ventured into Donegal town. We bought sweaters and ate a delish dinner at a quaint pub. So interesting how Irish emmigrants became police in the US and they all send their police badge thingies back to Irish pubs. I've seen it all over Ireland.
Our hotel was fab. We stayed at Lake Eske Castle Hotel and it was like being a guest at Downton Abbey.
2 comments:
Beautiful hike. Amazing hotel. And I did not know that about Irish cops!
The laundry, the food, the scenery, the architecture . . . It's all wonderful!
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