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West
Cork Coastline
(start trip in Cork city
- finish
in Kinsale town) |
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June 14,
July 5, 19, August 16, September
6
May, June & September €635. (US$902 / Stg£438 approx.)
July & August €665. (US$944 / Stg£459 approx.)
Please see booking information)
Tour includes seven nights in good
quality guesthouses and small hotels,
bike hire ( 21 speed Trek T30 ),
guide & luggage van and all route details.
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Quiet
roads lined with wild, deeply scented
flowers, this tour covers all types
of landscape, from rolling green fields to
spectacular coastal rides. West Cork
is also best known for its colourful
villages all of which are brightly
painted in a wonderful array of vibrant
colours, with wonderful hanging baskets
brimming with flowers out the front
of every pub and shop. This is the
more cosmopolitan part of rural Ireland
with many choosing to settle in this
idyllic setting. This tour finishes
in the colourful town of Kinsale, easily
accessible to Cork Airport and city
As with each of our tours, the week starts with a meeting
of the group at 6.30pm, in a hotel close to the centre
of Cork City.
We head out by the banks of the Lee and travel along
quiet back roads to a lunch stop in the market town of
Macroom. In the afternoon we continue up the Lee Valley
through rolling countryside to the wonderfully peaceful
Lakeside retreat of Gougane Barra , the source of the
River Lee and Irelands first National Park.
We cycle down to the coast past fields of grazing cattle
and sheep to the coastal town of Bantry for lunch. In
the afternoon we head out to the beautiful Sheeps Head
Peninsula and cycle along quiet coastal roads with stunning
views of the surrounding landscape. That night you have
a home cooked dinner in your guesthouse.
We cycle onto the Mizen Peninsula in the morning and
the village of Schull. After lunch you can either cycle
the coast road or else take a ferry across Roaring water
Bay (it is usually quite calm!) to the village of Baltimore.
Baltimore is a lovely village to potter around for the
day or else you can take off to explore the nearby islands
and countryside.
In the morning we cycle along quiet backroads to the
peaceful Lough Ine and then follow the West Cork coast
to the village of Glandore where we have lunch overlooking
the beautiful Glandore Harbour with its two islands,
Adam and Eve. In the afternoon we visit a 3,000 year
old stone circle , one of the best examples of its kind
in the country, before following another scenic coastal
cycle to the bustling town of Clonakilty.
In the morning we follow the coast road before heading
inland to the village of Timoleague, where you can
visit a 15th Century Franciscan Friary. After lunch
we continue to hug the coastline all the way to the
historic town of Kinsale, site of the Battle of Kinsale
in 1601 . Kinsale is a very colourful cosmopolitan
town with a wide range of excellent craft shops. Later
that evening we have a final farewell night out on
the town together.
In the morning you are free to make your own
way back to Cork City which is 18 miles away.
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