Took our final swim in the sea at the promenade in Bray on a beautiful still, warm morning. It was great to be able to finish the summers travels with Barney and Sinead, with whom we’d started off with a month ago. A final celebratory ice cream in the sunshine and we were ready to Read more

The lake at Glendalough was looking incredible when we woke up and crawled out of the van. It was going to be a stunner of a day. This is another climbing area that my university friend, Daragh, had told me about years ago. I’ve been bouldering and hiking here on two previous occasions, but never Read more

 Well, sometimes things don’t quite go to plan. We took the rope and climbing kit on a long walk today. The Great Gully Ridge of Glenmalure, looks pretty good in the guidebook to Irish climbing – so good in far, that four pages have been dedicated to documenting the route along with a couple of Read more

A fine few days on the south coast of Cork searching for waves, began in a very luxurious way. One of the nice things about this expedition has been the range of accommodation, which has ranged from modestly rustic, to all out delightful. Breakfast on Saturday morning was firmly in the latter camp. After working Read more

We’ve meandered our way down into Connty Cork, where the weather has been a little damp of late. We did our best to check out some of the viewpoints along the winding coast road that leads out to Sheep’s Point, but didn’t manage to get too many panoramic photos as our guidebook suggested we might. Read more

Couldn’t resist heading back to Dunshean Head for a quick climb before we left the Dingle Peninsula. Such incredible rock, wild geology, geography and, now that the wind had calmed down, a tranquil place to be.  We made our short abseil down to the base ledge, which this time wasn’t being constantly washed with waves Read more