Ireland - the peninsulas

The most popular and scenic drives in Ireland are the south western peninsulas. 

Rugged, beautiful and reasonable for cyclists because the traffic is slow although there are plenty of hills!

Very cool roads!

Some of them are basically paved goat paths. 

The "ring of Kerry" is the best known route, but we found the Beara peninsula to the sout even more scenic - and virtually unoccupied. We only saw 10 cars in 3 hours of cycling. 

One of the coolest sights was Skellig Michael, a tiny offshore island. It was a monastery from 700 to 1200 AD. The Vikings used to like kidnapping the monks and torturing them to death - fun, I guess, if you were a Viking. Nobody knows why the monastery was abandoned. It was recently used for the filming of the new Star Wars movie. 

Now we have finished cycling, so it's off to a castle for Jackie's birthday!