Stage eight: Galway to Newfield…Wigwam!

My hostess was as good as her word when she said that I could get at the cereals from 6.30am: the lady also made me a scrambled-egg sandwich for the road. Sounds bizarre, right? It was more like a Tortilla Espanola but minus the spuds. I can overlook that infraction as it was immense!

I can forgive this twee cobblers as it is a class establishment!

And away from lovely Galway: defo on the return list.

Another day, another county! 

The landscape went through probably 3 or 4 changes today. Immense!

It was a dead-heat as to who was MVP today between the landscape and the weather. Bright sunshine, blue skies and mainly favourable winds were really appreciated…but, take a gander at what I had to pedal through. #thoughtsandprayers

Zero apologies for the photo bombardment but I took so many…without exaggeration, that 30 mile stretch was champagne cycling, and as wonderful as pretty much anywhere else that I’ve trundled through. Take a bow, Counties Galway and Mayo! 

He might have at least used an alias! #mojorisin

Please, do not zoom-in. #nightmares

The other mission for today was to try to meet a ‘work’ colleague who was over in Westport with some pals on an er, energetic weekend. It worked-out about as well as one could’ve wished given the personnel involved, hah-hah! It resulted in an early Guinness for someone…cheers Fiona!

After 20 minutes I was away with only 17 miles to go: as per, the last 5 seemed to drag in peu…

The captions for the photos aren’t playing nice, so the one above is in because we started in Bangor last Saturday at daft o’clock. Seems like an age ago- after reading this daily cobblers, you may very well agree, hah-hah!

Here’s tonight’s acco…super friendly and with a warning that they’ll have a band playing later. Madam, you could have a Motörhead trib and I’d sleep. Although I would listen to a few numbers first…

No sign of Bono at the time of scribbling (8.19pm). Praise be, hah-hah! So that leaves just the two items of business…stats and a tune.

Today’s stage is for Gary Galbraith, who is missed by so many people. He was a huge music fan, and while I was loving today’s scenery this Dylan instrumental kept playing. Gary loved Bob and he was pretty fond of this tune too. Cheers mate…