When Andrew got up in the morning there wasn't a cloud in the sky. I have to say by the time we got going it had clouded over. We headed to the Dingle peninsula which meant quite a climb but we had some great views on the way. Then the rain started. Once we got to the outskirts of Dingle the weather started getting better and this is when Andrew's bike spoke broke. The second one on this trip.
Panicked that we couldn't find a bike shop on Google. We asked a local outdoors shop, who told us to take it to Paddy's bike shop. He doesn't usually do repairs on a Sunday but said he would do it. :-D But it wouldn't be fixed until 6! :-( We had only done half of our distance and even though we would still have done our 1000km without it, we hired Andrew a bike and continued the route we had planned.
We cycled the Slea head road and I am so glad we did. The weather was great and the views stunning. We had a bit of race to get hire bike back but we managed it. We celebrated with an ice cream, locally made and gorgeous. We also had dinner out at Ashes Bar, the highlight was the scallops and pork belly. We went to bed late for this trip, 10:30. Fingers crossed the spoke lasts for the next 200km!
Day 8 Stats
Distance - 46 km in 3hr 27min (with loop ~ 97km in 6hr 57min, no bike computer for loop)
Total Distance - 866km
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