Using the Wild Atlantic Way as a default route was working out well. On occasion we skipped some of the vantage points that came up. You start to see enough old forts or ruined churches after a time and, at times, we spotted something that interested us off the route and took the diversion; but for most of the time we found that holding to the defined route was working well. The route was taking us through some spectacular country, past sites that were interesting and along roads that, while occasionally just a little skinny for us at that time, were always well within the capacity of our little Polo. This post will cover ground fairly quickly, as did we. We travelled from County Donegal into Leitrim briefly, into Sligo and then onto Mayo passing through
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