A gift that keeps on taking…

Glenmalure? Well the B&B hostess was well used to walkers and was welcoming and hospitable. The next door Lodge had all the solids and liquids you could want, a large screen showing sport and sociable bar staff and clientele …. however, the local weather forecast was rain all day which was half correct. More correctly it was heavy rain all day. Did I mention that it was snugly nestled in a valley? So not only a steep climb (worse than post office up to the Butts, seriously) but double bonus of going further into cloud. So specs misting up so keep them on but can’t see or take them off and …

Brief respite mid morning and it struck me that the scenery was just like the sport sensation of the previous evening…

Yes, of course …. clear woods all the way ! And don’t they look green jacketed …

So mostly just a case of buttoning and zipping everything and striding on like some walking black condom . And unbanishable ear worm of the day was that bleedin’ song by Wet Wet Wet… although at one stage the wind was blowing against a steel gate so that it sounded like an Aeolian harp which temporarily lifted my spirits (if not the clouds)…. and passed Ballynamanogue who is I guess the least known of the Aussie singing sisters

route was basically continually up and down … mountains like this one that I think may have inspired Tolkien

The Craic of Doom??

Anywho am in Murphy’s in Tinahely with another 21 miles under the belt although the forecast tomorrow is somewhat familiar

stroll soddenly on ?