Day 2 – Ballybofey – Westport
Day two found our 3 adventurers holed up at Finn Farm a hostel just outside Ballybofey. In true botch style the hostel had not been booked until an hour or so before arrival and despite our earlier reservations turned out to be a fairly good thing. Our illustrious Chairman quickly grabbed the executive double en suite room by using a highly questionable forth method in rock paper scissors.....still turned out ok.
Our task for the day was to journey from Ballybofey to Westport, with a detour to Fanad Head & Mullaghmore Head.
Fanad Head is a Bluff that faces out in to the Atlantic close to Malin Head. In order to reach it we had to experience some pretty challenging roads & some magnificent scenery, a kind of cross between highland Scotland and Alpine Italy so far as we could judge. This road is used extensively as an Irish Rally Stage. John was the designated driver today and took great delight in using all of his driving skills, most gleaned from his many hours of watching The Dukes of Hazard & Starsky & Hutch. Colin McCrae would have been proud of the way in which his systematically pulverised our spleens......
The weather started out cold and very misty, but dry so we did not hold out much hope for good views, but on arrival we found the views amazing, with great views of mountains and clear blue Atlantic sea & huge white breakers.....
A task was set to get ourselves photographed dressed as four figures. An American Tourist (Ev), Arthur Guinness (Ev), Mr Tayto (John) & Michael Flatley (Phil).......see photos for details.......
There followed a pleasant drive down the N15 to the tiny fishing village of Mullaghmore Head, a lovely fishing village on the west coast of Ireland, we enjoyed a very good Fisherman’s Chowder and Guinness in a local restaurant.
And then it was onward down the N15 & R310 to Westport, once again our leader’s Stig qualities asserted themselves as he took on another Irish Rally stage. The beautiful scenery setting was turned up to 11 during this part of the day with awesome mountains giving way to rolling hills and the quiet beauty of the Lough and Pontoon.
Westport looks like a lovely town, which we will report on later......
We hope you are enjoying our adventures on the Team Botch Facebook page & on our web page www.teambotch.org.uk , because we are! - More later John, Phil & Ev.
Our task for the day was to journey from Ballybofey to Westport, with a detour to Fanad Head & Mullaghmore Head.
Fanad Head is a Bluff that faces out in to the Atlantic close to Malin Head. In order to reach it we had to experience some pretty challenging roads & some magnificent scenery, a kind of cross between highland Scotland and Alpine Italy so far as we could judge. This road is used extensively as an Irish Rally Stage. John was the designated driver today and took great delight in using all of his driving skills, most gleaned from his many hours of watching The Dukes of Hazard & Starsky & Hutch. Colin McCrae would have been proud of the way in which his systematically pulverised our spleens......
The weather started out cold and very misty, but dry so we did not hold out much hope for good views, but on arrival we found the views amazing, with great views of mountains and clear blue Atlantic sea & huge white breakers.....
A task was set to get ourselves photographed dressed as four figures. An American Tourist (Ev), Arthur Guinness (Ev), Mr Tayto (John) & Michael Flatley (Phil).......see photos for details.......
There followed a pleasant drive down the N15 to the tiny fishing village of Mullaghmore Head, a lovely fishing village on the west coast of Ireland, we enjoyed a very good Fisherman’s Chowder and Guinness in a local restaurant.
And then it was onward down the N15 & R310 to Westport, once again our leader’s Stig qualities asserted themselves as he took on another Irish Rally stage. The beautiful scenery setting was turned up to 11 during this part of the day with awesome mountains giving way to rolling hills and the quiet beauty of the Lough and Pontoon.
Westport looks like a lovely town, which we will report on later......
We hope you are enjoying our adventures on the Team Botch Facebook page & on our web page www.teambotch.org.uk , because we are! - More later John, Phil & Ev.
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