Terry and Sooz's Travels: October 7, 2019

Monday, October 7, 2019

October 7, 2019 - Dingle, Ireland

First, I need to catch up from last night in Ennis. We headed towards the restaurant at our hotel and heard live music coming out of the pub so we ducked in and ordered dessert. A local group of musicians was playing traditional Irish music and below is a short video of a jig they played. We stayed about an hour and they played without break. It was great and the crowd loved them.

We drove from Ennis to the Town of Dingle which of course is on the Dingle Peninsula. Rick Steves has an entire chapter in his Ireland travel book on Dingle including a detailed description of a 30 mile drive around the peninsula that he highly recommends.

We originally planned on taking the drive tomorrow but the bartender at the pub where we had dinner tonight suggested we take the drive this evening to take advantage of the sunny skies and not get caught up in the buses and traffic during the day. That sounded like a good idea so we took the drive this evening and it was great. Pictures and videos below.

For my planner friends I took a picture of the Ennis city sign that shows they were a gold winner in the TidyTowns competition. TidyTowns is an annual competition that evaluates 600 submittals across the Country against 6 categories.

Two videos of the Dingle Drive: