On a beautiful sunny November day, we visited Foxy John's pub and bike rental shop (in which atleast 3 old men were drinking Guinness at 9:30 in the morning) and rented two bikes. From that shop in Dingle, we proceeded to bike 30km in the next 5 hours. It was a beautiful and very scenic bike ride along the windy and narrow roads of the Dingle Peninsula. Our first stop was a nice, white sand beach on Ventry Harbour for a walk and a few pictures and our next stop was along the road, when Jesse randomly decided to climb the grass covered rock bank that was taller than me. To our surprise, there was a lovely 300ft cliff on the other side. Our other stops included feeding a donkey, visiting an ancient rock fortress and various other spots that allowed us a panoramic view of the Atlantic Ocean. We took our lunch upon a gorgeous white sand beach that was quite private, though quite windy. The wind was quite bad that day and as a result, we went faster walking then we did petaling, even when we were going downhill. The wind was against us for about 3/4 of our journey; even so, we did manage to make it to a very, very old church and walked through its graveyard of faded and illegible headstones. Again, something that predates our country by a good few hundred years. We made it back around 4:30 in the afternoon and finished our day with a pint in a local pub and some steamy home-made spaghetti in our bellies.--[Colleen]
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