Day 4 Dingle

View from the room

It's time to leave Dublin and it was a very nice stay - I'd recommend it to anybody, especially to anybody who likes beer. I got up very early and went for an early morning walk and found a little shop that had a small steak and kidney pie and I had that with coffee and sat there for awhile and enjoyed watching the all the hubbub and morning commuters. Afterwards I went back to the hotel and got Sylvia and we walked for about 20 minutes with our luggage to a rental car place and picked up a small car and were on our way towards Dingle before 10. The drive was pleasant enough with a few narrow roads, just enough to cause me to ding the passenger side mirror. Again this was no problem, except Sylvia was my passenger. Do you think she said anything?... She hardly ever uses that kind of language.

Dinner at Global Village

We arrived in Dingle around 2 and checked in to the Heatons Guest House. It's a pleasant 16 room place that overlooks the water. Dingle's a town of 1,600 people and the whole peninsula has 10,000 residents.We settled in and walked 15 minutes into town to find a place for dinner. We ended up making reservation at the Global Village restaurant but not before stopping for a pint at Barr Na Sraide Pub before walking back to the guest house.

The dinner at the Global Village was very, very good. For appetizers I ordered duck liver parfait and duck leg rillette and Sylvia had the cream cheese croquette. For the main course, and since the Dingle Peninsula is home to 100,000 sheep,  I ordered an all lamb dish of steak, liver, belly, neck, and a mini Shepard's Pie. And, since Dingle's a fishing port, Sylvia ordered mackerel, and lemon sole with a duck fat fried potato. The desserts were great too. Stuffed again!

On the waddle back we stopped at John Benny's Pub for a pint and watched the Germany Ireland soccer match. There was an enthusiastic group of both Germans and Irish in the pub. It was a lot of fun and we watched until the half was over and then went back to the guest house to watch the ending. Surprisingly Ireland won 1-0. Obviously the Germans couldn't understand it.