For the next few days we use Uncle Brian's and Marge's as our home base. We start the week going up to Brandon Point. It's an overcast day with some light rain but not too bad for a touring day. The roads are quite bumpy and the visibilities around the corners are not great. We come to one spot in the road where we come to a very fast stop as a heard of sheep are being moved, through the main street of the village, by sheep dogs and 2 guys in a truck. I was able to get a picture.

We move along to the Dingle Peninsula which is an extremely beautiful ride. There isn't a lot of traffic as we are coming to the end of high season so after passing a few big tour buses we are just cruising down the road. The scenery is breathtaking and I highly recommend going around the whole peninsula not just going into Dingle. This takes us the full day and we end up back in Tralee after 8:00.

Tuesday is a rainy day, the first in quite awhile. I spend the day in town doing housekeeping items. Patrick though and his new best friend John, are on their way to a little known golf course called "Tralee Golf Club" some of you may recognize the name. Patrick was so excited the night before he could barely sleep. His luck was with him as his tee off time was at 3:00 pm and that is when the clouds started to disappear and the sun came out. He played an excellent round despite using clubs that were made before he was even born. Our dear friends John and Kevin were amazed at Patrick's golfing ability as he beat the pants off them.....and I thought it was supposed to be a hard course ??!!!

Many many thanks though do go out to John, Kevin and Daire for getting Patrick on to this golf course. It was not something we would have been able to do on our own.

Wednesday we head to Killarney to see the National Park and Ross Castle. You could easily spend 2 or 3 days here but we end up only spending a few hours. I thought the park was spectacular and very well kept. It reminded me of home. We meet up with our new posse of friends and head over to the Tralee Races. Drinking and gambling on the ponies..... a great way to spend the afternoon. Perhaps another late night and again we sneak back into Uncle Brian's like 17 year olds....

Thursday and Friday we spend doing the ring of Kerry, Valencia Island and the Skellig Ring. We both thought it was beautiful but we thought the Dingle ring was a little more scenic...don't tell the tourist bureau... the weather was good for us again. The roads are a little on the ...okay okay.... a lot on the bumpy side so you pretty much stay in the speed limit.