Friday 26th November 2021

The super duper French style service point at Glencoh proved not to be that super duper after all. It's drinking water supply has broken down and you have to get water from a tap over the fence by the football pitch! Before leaving we talked to the British man from the very large very old van. He and his family live in the van full time. He is from south east England but is hoping to buy some land in Ireland and build a house.

We continued to travel along the coast of Connemara. We passed this small fishing port.

It was extremely windy today. I could really feel the van being buffeted around as we travelled.

We stopped at Roundstone for a cup of tea. Here's the view we had while drinking it.

The wind seemed to get stronger as the day went on. In exposed places the sea was very rough.

We stopped for the day in a nice free sheltered from the wind car park in the Centre of Clifden - the capitol of Connemara. We went out for a pub lunch.

Ann had chicken salad, I had fish pie - followed by puds - very nice.

There's something about Irish Pubs that is very satisfying.

Just outside the pub is this statue of the famous aviators Alcock and Brown who made the first transatlantic non stop flight from Newfoundland to a bog just west of Clifden in 1919. Their flight was an epic struggle which they only survived as a result of their all round class as aviators. If you're interested see: Alcock and Brown

After our pub lunch we bought some bread and beer and retreated to our van as the weather was very threatening. There were several hailstorms this afternoon but we are very sheltered here. The van is nice and warm and we have plenty of LPG to keep it that way.

Today we travelled 50 miles (81 kilometres). We are at: N53.4888 W10.0189

Clifden  Street View