Ireland day 1142. Wednesday 13 November 2024- UK Guests Day 4

Today’s summary	Together with our friends we took the 102 bus to Sutton then walked round the coast to Howth. Had a look round the harbour then lunch at Beshoffs seafood restaurant and café. Got the DART and 102 bus back then a quiet evening in the flat with some pork casserole for dinner and a Clint Eastwood film on TV
Today’s weather	Bright and dry with some sun to start with but cloud fog and drizzle later. Almost no wind. Appx 11c

Today’s overview location (The green mark shows the location of our route)		Close-up location (The orange line shows where we walked) (Click button below to download GPX of today’s walk as recorded, or see interactive map at bottom with elevations corrected): Sutton to Howth NHG

Commentary

Our friends were having a day off historical investigations today, so after a fairly leisurely breakfast, we headed off together to Malahide to catch the 102 south. Our destination today was Sutton, and after a bit of careful checking of the tides, I established that we would be able to walk round the coast to Howth via the Burrow beach.

So once we had been deposited by the bus outside Sutton station, we made our way across the mud-flats, round the golf club headland and onto the beach.

We had almost the whole place to ourselves today. Big skies and lots of space. So it was a thoroughly fun enjoyable walk along the sand. We arrived in Howth after about an hour and had a good look round the harbour, walking right out to the new lighthouse.

On completion of our sojourn, we dropped into Beshoffs for a seafood lunch (the fish pie and the fish and chips were excellent, especially with a good Sauvignon Blanc). Then after lunch we took a quick look at the seal milling around the fishing boats, we caught a DART then the 102, again, and made it back to Malahide just before 5pm. By this time, the blue skies had become a thing of the past and a thick cold clammy sea mist had stolen in, enshrouding everything in its chilly embrace

Once back at the flat, given that we’d all just eaten we didn’t feel like a heavyweight dinner was needed, we just enjoyed some of the pork casserole I made last week, with a good glass of Rioja to accompany it. An unusually alcoholic day!

We didn’t have any further plans for the evening, so downloaded the Clint Eastwood classic “Outlaw Josie Wales” from Amazon and spent a thoroughly enjoyable couple of hours recalling the summer of 1976.

So all in all a very pleasant and low-stress day with our friends.

Today’s photos (click to enlarge)


The line at Sutton Station	Big skies – which rapidly went clammy and misty over lunch – at Burrow Beach

Taking a long walk on a long pier	At one of Howth’s numerous lighthouses



Remarkable boat. My first name and Val’s middle name