Day 33: Glencar-Killarney A road trip today, down the Clare coast. We stopped at a beach that you can drive on in an ordinary car (we didn’t). We walked around the little tourist town of Dingle, famous for (i) a resident dolphin and (ii) that Marie Antoinette nearly fled there, but didn’t. I had a haircut/beard trim/eyebrow clip there for the princely sum of 11 euros (about $16). Visited another clifftop fort, a small one – Bronze Age, I think it was which was – patrolled by sheep and a Doberman named Roxy, which is suitable for a place with a lot of rocks. Some superb sea views, of course, and finally a two-way mountain view at Con(n)or Pass (like many other places here, it has alternative spellings). Liam at Glencar had looked up the local
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