Tuesday morning started with a donkey trying to eat my sleeve… it’s ok though, he wasn’t vicious about it, I probably shouldn’t have tried to stroke his nose before breakfast!

After this donkey drama we set off to the local shops for supplies, this is noteworthy for two reasons, the first is that the name of the local town is Skibbereen which is an excellent name and should absolutely be the name of a planet! The second reason it is noteworthy is because it means I get to show you all the pretty colours that towns are painted in this part of Ireland 😊

(These are not all from the same town but they are so colourful)

After this cheerful and useful stop we headed off along the Wild Atlantic Way to in search of a dramatic bridge (that will make sense soon I promise)

It was a spectacular, if…