Come join us for a week in our life living in a van along the Wild Atlantic Way in winter. We immediately fall in love with Beara's beauty and tranquility.
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 adventures 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 begin our explorations around the Beara Peninsula. If you've missed our travels along the WAW so far - check out our previous episodes, we upload weekly on a Sunday at 5pm :)
First pit stop of our week is back to Argos in Killarney to buy (another) new drone after our recent accidents with the drones. We take the scenic route to and from Killarney and experience some roads we haven't travelled on before. En route, Isabel gets a call to ask if she wants to go live on Cork's Red FM the next day to chat about Lost in Transit, she agrees excitedly and we find out first park up spot in the Beara Peninsula. It's the perfect spot with a beautiful stone jetty out on to a lake. The next day she nervously await her live stint on the radio before getting the call!
We awake the next day at this stunning spot and Isabel really wants to have a swim but unfortunately someone the night before had deposited some off putting food into the lake, lol! We decide against a swim there and go off to explore the Uragh stone circle, then we try to visit the Glenichaquin Park but unfortunately it's closed at this time of year, but we still enjoy some drone footage of the amazing waterfall.
We join back with the Wild Atlantic Way and we have a vanlife lunch in what we call our "cab-servatory". We are already in love with Beara's beauty and we drive past a beautiful woodland and have to turn back and explore because it looks so enchanted! We walk the Doorus loop and enjoy the varied scenery we are treated to. After no luck having a swim in the lake that morning, we drive on the Eyeries motorhome park where Isabel shows you our outdoor shower set up (at night). Cold but so good to feel clean! Isabel shows you around the campsite whilst Tom has his shower in the daylight! We feed the neighbouring donkeys some apple then head out for the day to explore the Eyeries loops, we end up doing all three walking loops around Eyeries and highly recommend! We have a pit stop for Peanut Butter Jelly sandwiches and compare the Cornish and Devon way of applying jam and peanut butter like a cream tea ha. We continue our Ireland admiration and head to find somewhere to stay for the night. We find, by chance, the Beara Bowl , an amazing bowl shape cut out in the rocks with incredible stormy seas swirling around. We enjoy watching the wild sea until sunset then find another perfect camping spot along the road.
The next day we head to Allihies and admire it's strong ties to Cornwall, lots of copper mining occurred in the area and lots of Cornish people came over to teach others how to mine. We set off on an 18km walk around Allihies which passes around some copper mines. We find Ireland's only "Man Engine House" and Tom explains how it works! We trek along for 18km and find ourselves very tired by the end of the expedition! We finish the day off with a refreshing dip and will share more of our adventures on the Beara Peninsula next week. We really do love it here!
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Isabel and Tom :) x
26 фев 2022
