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It's the end of an era - without realising it, we just counted on our calendar and it's been exactly one hundred days that we spent on the Wild Atlantic Way - the longest coastal drive in the world! We are sad to say goodbye to this magical route but feel so lucky to have had the experience.
This week it feels like the summer holidays, with beautiful weather and good times with friends on the beach. We soak up our final few days on the Wild Atlantic Way. What a journey this has been and we want to thank everyone who has made our time here special. We will never forget how we felt on this road trip and the people and the places along the way hold a very special place in our hearts.
If you're new around here - welcome and thank you for stopping by to our channel. We hope to bring you good positive vibes each week with our videos. We are Tom and Iz - a couple from Cornwall who decided to hit the road and embrace a new way of life, living and exploring in our tiny home on wheels, La Bamba. We invite you along with us on our recent escapades in our weekly vlogs. We love to embrace adventure and soak up nature every day! We're currently traveling around Ireland in our transit van along the Wild Atlantic Way. Ireland has really stolen our hearts; come along with us on this week's episode as we continue to explore the final stretch of the Wild Atlantic Way, from Skibbereen to Kinsale. It feels very emotional to be finishing this beautiful and special journey. If you've missed our travels so far - check out our previous episodes, we upload weekly on a Sunday at 5pm :)
Our first stop of the week is to Rineen Woods, before we take on the last stretch of the Wild Atlantic Way. Next stop is the pretty village of Glandore, with an unusual and striking church entrance that catches our eye. We head to Drombeg Stone Circle and spring is in the air! We explore the hut circles and then move on to Warren beach for a sea dip, a beach kindly recommended by one of our lovely subscribers! It's very cold but beautiful! Next on the agenda is Galley Head - you can't get right to the lighthouse because its a private road but we still get a good view of the wild and rugged headland! We then move on to our park up for the night at Red Strand, where we meet Johnny and Hannah who are just starting the Wild Atlantic Way - you can check out their RU-vid Channel called "Finding Our Adventure" to see our time together from their perspective. Hannah cooks us up some Fajitas followed by pancakes!
We head to bed and use our new Surfshark VPN and tell you all about it. The next day we wake to a misty morning and head off for a walk from Long Strand where we find a forest and a ruined church, only to find our path turns to a river after all the rain we've had recently. We treat ourselves to a coffee in the fish basket and spend the rainy afternoon making sushi in Johnny and Hannah's camper. We move on to a campsite in Clonakilty but on our way we get pulled over by the Gards to let us know our taillight is out and turns out he watches our videos - he was really nice and gave us tips for the local area! We head on to see music at the famous De Barra pub and find ourselves with a visitor to our van - the ginger cat that lives on the farm we're staying at. He makes himself at home in our bed and we feel like the universe sent us this sign as we were just saying how much we'd like a van cat after spending time with Johnny and Hannah's full time van lifer cats Tia and Skye. We say goodbye to Johnny and Hannah the next day as they make their way on to the Dingle Peninsular (where we left a piece of our hearts :P) and wish them safe travels.
We then head on to a beautiful secluded cove where we meet up with our wonderful friends Steph and Jeff and their families for one final Hurrah before saying goodbye for now at least. It really did feel like a summer holiday those days with them, rock pooling on the beach, watching the sunset and drinking beer in their campervan. We were sad to say goodbye the next day as they really have welcomed us to Ireland and we are so glad we met them on the Dingle Peninsula! They are a lovely local family with a campervan too - you can find them on Instagram by the name "navigatingneena" - I really like their conversion - it has double bunk beds!
On our final day (100th day) on the Wild Atlantic Way, it's fitting that it's glorious weather, we eek it out with a picnic in Timoleague, visiting Garretstown the Old Head of Kinsale and Sandycove on our way to our final stop at Kinsale! We meet two of our lovely subscribers Paul and Mary who kindly treat us to a pint in The Spaniard.
Thank you so much to everyone for coming along with us on our journey. It's not over and we can't wait to share our next steps with you.
Sending our love
Iz and Tom xx
19 мар 2022
