We spent 5 days in Galway sightseeing, doing our laundry (in the back of a gas station in an automated unit), and took a day to visit Aran Islands, of Inishmore.
Galway was bustling with tourists and excitement of rugby tournament and on anthor day, a ladies day at the horse races, everyone dressed up in their fancy clothes and hats to go to the races.
The trip to Aran Islands was a nine hour affair. Leaving at 9:30 am for a two hour ferry ride, then 4.5 hours on Inishmore, the largest of the Islands, then a 2.5 hour return trip by the way of the Cliffs of Moher. We got to also see the Corkscrew Hill from Atlantic side.
After five days, we left our B&B and headed west on R336. The road followed the coast heading west with views of the Galway Bay and the Aran Islands. After about 30 km the road headed north through the Connemara. A rolling plateau of fog, bog, and rocks. We rode 52 km and an EG of 1,000 ft.
We stayed at a very nice Lodge at Screebe House in a suite room with large bay windows over looking the lake. It had been cloudy and misty all day but not raining until we arrived at the Lodge where it started to rain which continued thru the next day.
We left Screebe House the next day at 9:30 am in pouring down rain, which continued all day. Our ride which was supposed to be 38 km turned to be another 52 km of rolling hills, climbs through the Connemara through Clifden and out the other side to our lodge, with EG of 800 ft.
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