Day 4 – Tralee – Kinsale
OK so we were none of us particularly enamoured with Tralee as there didn’t seem to be much going on there. We did find a rather nice place to eat “Tequila’s” did a rather nice slap up Tex-Mex feast for us!
We holed up for the night in a friendly hostel in the town centre & all went to bed fairly early......
The following morning our task masters gave us the usual silly things to do and we set off to find a host of weird and wonderful things........
With Johnny back in the driver’s seat and with all of us feeling fairly well rested we set off back in to Mordor to take on the challenges of the South West of Ireland.......
Today we can truly say that at last we have seen the real Ireland – The rain today fell with an almost biblical intensity which strangely just added to the allure of the mountains of Kerry & Cork. The views of the mountains & valleys were shrouded by clouds and mist and just looked stunning.
John was truly back on form today having been “a bit under the weather” yesterday. Our brave little car had to virtually swim the last mile or so when we arrived at the finishing line in Kinsale.
But finish we did and after all of the scores were added up Team Botch finished in a very creditable 9th place over all. We all felt very proud of our achievement and proceeded to let our hair down with the other Scally Teams.
We all felt a real sense of pride having completed the Rally this seemed to be universal among all the teams. All of the teams were so friendly and a good night was had by all.
Special congratulations should be made to Car 55 – The Lisburn Lads who were not only very well deserved winners, but were thoroughly good guys too – if you read this thanks from all of us Botchers for making our time in Ireland so enjoyable.
All that remains is the voyage home......
We holed up for the night in a friendly hostel in the town centre & all went to bed fairly early......
The following morning our task masters gave us the usual silly things to do and we set off to find a host of weird and wonderful things........
With Johnny back in the driver’s seat and with all of us feeling fairly well rested we set off back in to Mordor to take on the challenges of the South West of Ireland.......
Today we can truly say that at last we have seen the real Ireland – The rain today fell with an almost biblical intensity which strangely just added to the allure of the mountains of Kerry & Cork. The views of the mountains & valleys were shrouded by clouds and mist and just looked stunning.
John was truly back on form today having been “a bit under the weather” yesterday. Our brave little car had to virtually swim the last mile or so when we arrived at the finishing line in Kinsale.
But finish we did and after all of the scores were added up Team Botch finished in a very creditable 9th place over all. We all felt very proud of our achievement and proceeded to let our hair down with the other Scally Teams.
We all felt a real sense of pride having completed the Rally this seemed to be universal among all the teams. All of the teams were so friendly and a good night was had by all.
Special congratulations should be made to Car 55 – The Lisburn Lads who were not only very well deserved winners, but were thoroughly good guys too – if you read this thanks from all of us Botchers for making our time in Ireland so enjoyable.
All that remains is the voyage home......
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