July 6, 2024
Our plan had been to start the day at Blarney Castle, but when we tried to get tickets online, they were sold out. That's okay--we didn't feel a great need to kiss the Blarney Stone and taking one thing off the schedule made for a more relaxed day.
We left the B&B at about 9:30 or 10:00 and headed west towards the Dingle Peninsula.
Our first stop on the Dingle Peninsula was Minard Castle.
To get there from the main road, we drove down a very narrow single-lane road. Every now and then there was a turnout so two cars could pass, but in most spots even our tiny car seemed to hug both sides of the road, and if two cars meet in an area like this, they both have to pull over into the weeds in order to pass.
. . . that looks over a desolate bay of the cold Irish Sea.
