Dew Files Ireland – Luck of the Dew

Blood pudding, Guinness and a little ‘Luck of the Irish’.
For this installment of the Dew Files we sent our intrepid wanderer to Ireland for a St Patrick’s day exploit. Rather than letting Dew loose to partake in the revelry and libations in Dublin, we put him on a fully loaded Sutra LTD to explore the quiet and picturesque backdrop of the Emerald Isle far from the Blarney Stone kissing tourists. So follow along with Dew on his trip through a land frozen in time, a land with stone walls that checker the hillside, sheep that run wild, dramatic cliffs and single lane gravel “roads” that disappear over the rolling countryside. You’ll quickly discover that Ireland truly delivers the right amount of ‘magic’ for a great bikepacking adventure.

Hey do get go we gotta get the plate we you have the hindsight to know where you’ve been the foresight to know where you’re going and the insight to know when you’re going too far I feel like I’ve been going too far already so once I get to Ireland the sun is

Shining and I meet up with my two friends from Galway we start the ride off little country laying nice rock walls and all of a sudden it’s right into the Hurt Locker straight uphill I wasn’t quite expecting that road was quite rugged and the seats were Ltd was

A perfect bike for that initial climb performed flawlessly we started out the ride the top of the mountains and then we rode around the island and spent a little bit of time down at the beach honestly it was it was a bit like a moonscape and a little bit like the Big

Island of Hawaii quite stark of beautiful waters beautiful colors really really amazing and we wound up at the Cliffs of Moher at the end of the day big breaking surf beautiful red sunset again it was just a perfect end to a they have rowdy really nice way to start

The journey I mean the road rise up to meet you may the wind always be at your back may the Sun Shine warm upon your face and the rains fall soft upon the field day two we headed out to Akal Island it was a beautiful postcard picturesque

Ride that sort of reminded me a bit of riding down by Monterey Peninsula it was a twisty neon-green road that was very quiet there were sheeps scattered all over the road we stopped beautiful views and we ended up in a town called Kiel where we took a break for lunch and that was

Really neat because there was a huge beach but we also had a chance to see the the coffin trail where they used to hike the bodies the coffins over this huge mountain to bury it on the other side which was really spectacular after that we ended up going and went off to

Guten trop and saw an old stone village that had been abandoned during the potato famine quite remarkable how many people actually lived up in the hillside there we ended up finishing the day by riding right to the end of the road the most northwestern part of the island and

We came to these beautiful cliffs that we managed to get to the top of before sunset we had a little bit of Jameson’s up there and took in stunning views it was interesting to note that that was where the whaling station was on the top of the hill

The lookout would be there to warn the sailors down below when the whales would be coming around the corner for the hunt it was a magical moment really a spectacular way to end they – of the ride so what are you going to do tomorrow got the day off

The green chili before debate in Kentucky we stopped through town and we picked up a little bit of food and then we were able to head back up into the mountains so this time we were going to head up and check out a little place where people fished a nice little park

Land up in the mountains after we had a little bit of lunch up in the park we we also stumbled across a local who was fly-fishing and he was a great old lad he gave us a lot of information told us all about sheep farming and anyhow again another

Beautiful day up in the mountains and we wrapped it up with a nice descent out of the hills and it was just incredible what up what a ride I I gotta say I think it’s one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been on a bike in my

Life I think that we were really captured with the luck of the Irish I would go back in a heartbeat if I knew it was gonna be anything like the time I spent there maybe I’d like to go back and try it again in the rain just to see

How different it would be luck and a is very big our gals today listen that’s all you can about dogs no don’t sing double hey you bells you built people oh I know the boat Yubel sick and tired of say no one