Friday 31st May 2024
Our first stop today was Dingle where we had intended to find a pitch on the harbour car park and stay the night, sadly it wasn’t to be. The car park was rammed, we drove around and found another car park to park on, to tour the town, but it didn’t allow motorhomes to stop overnight.
Dingle has been in existence for more than 800 years, it is a small town on the south west of Ireland’s Dingle Peninsula and is a pretty fishing port with a sheltered natural harbour. It is known for quality food, restaurants, pubs and interesting shops plus art and craft galleries, we had looked forward to spending a night there but it wasn’t to be.
Over lunch we pored over the maps and the Search for Sites app and came up with some alternatives to stay at, Michelle phoned some sites but they were all full, it is a bank holiday weekend so everywhere is busy. We had to revert to plan B and find a pub stop which we did not too far out of Dingle almost at the end of the peninsula.
The pub was owned by Paidi O’ Se a famous player of Irish football born in 1955 who was also a policeman based in Limerick, he had an illustrious career and went on to be a manager of several clubs. Sadly he died of heart attack at the age of 57.The pub is decorated with his sporting memorabilia and lined with photographs of him in action it also has photographs of famous people who have visited notably Dolly Parton and Tom Cruise.
To the side of the area where we are parked is a narrow lane leading down to Ventry Beach or Ceann Tra in gaelic.
The beach is approximately 3 km long and has silver sand.
It is completely free to stay here and there is no requirement to eat or drink at the pub but we rounded the day off with a pub meal and a drink.
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