Thursday 25th November 2021

At about 9.00 this morning we saw these two clients of Indie Campers, a campervan hire company, discharging the contents of their toilet at the edge of Doolin Pier car park. You can see the discharge is blue in colour meaning that not just sewage but toxic chemicals were both left on the edge of the car park. This kind of behaviour can only lead to the erection of more height barriers and more no overnight parking signs. I know that it is difficult at this time of year, campsites are closed, the few public toilets which exist are invariably locked, but if camper vanners have absolutely no alternative but to empty their toilet into the environment then they should do it unobtrusively in a place where no one is going to find it. Preferably dig a hole and bury it.

We left Doolin Pier and travelled north through The Burren.

This limestone landscape is very special and it does credit to the authorities that they have largely prevented the development of new housing here.

We stopped a couple of times along the way to marvel at the scenery.

Though we had been here before we were still really amazed at how wonderful this place is.

We continued to travel north stopping just south of Galway City to take on LPG. We bypassed Galway to the east and north of the City and then came west into Connemara stopping briefly at a small airport which does flights to the Aran Islands.

As we travelled further west into Connemara the scenery became wilder.

We stopped for the day at Glencoh. There is nothing much here apart from a Gaelic Football stadium. We can see this little lake from our parking place. This place is however a proper aire. It costs 10 euros a night to stay here.

There is a proper French style service point here.

This very large very old British registered van is also here this afternoon.

Today we travelled 88 miles (142 kilometres). We are at: N53.3859 W9.6120

Glencoh   Street View