Day 5

Wednesday, August 9th
Courtown to Tramore
105km

Each day seems to be following a similar routine: breakfast at B&B, cycle, lunch at gas station, cycle, check-in to B&B, shower, wash cycling clothes in sink and hang to dry, supper in town, write blog, sleep.

Thankfully, today's ride wasn't as tough as yesterday's.  However, there were a lot of rolling hills and I felt a bit sluggish after yesterday.  I made ok time though, leaving the B&B at 9:45am and arriving at 4:00pm.

I ignored the Lonely Planet instructions today.  I don't seem to be having much luck following them and they ge me lost a lot with their frequent little turns.  Instead, I planned out my own route using my big map.  That's a first for me, and it went off without any problems.

In the morning, I followed the coast road South from Courtown to Wexford.  After that, I went West to Ballyhack where I took a ferry across the River Barron to Passage East.  The river was very scenic, with rocky cliffs on both banks.  It was a welcome visual treat after a day of looking at farmers fields.  The final leg down to Tramore was also nice, with a lot of rolling, windy roady across greenery.

Tonigh's B&B is The Cliff House.  As I should have guessed, its at the top of a steep climb.  Even worse - I had to walk down to town and back again for dinner.

Weather was great again today.  No rain, cool but mostly sunny.