Claremorris

We left doolin unfortunately after only one night. It's such a nice place with live music every night. We had toforget about the cliffs of moher again because of the thick fog. So we drove around the burren area for a bit in the fog. It was actually kind of nice driving in the fog. It was safe fog. You could see where you were going but it was thinck enough to create a real eeriness. Daytime fog is not a normal experience for me. Neither is night time fog. We stopped at a 5000 year old burial tomb which was interesting and the landscape is all limestone so something different too.
Then we headed to Cong and stopped and looked around at the old monastery ruins and saw the the ashford castle across the river. It's a really green leafy town with lots of parkland which is rare. We are getting frustrated with ireland's lack of places to stop and eat your picnic lunch. We keep ending up in the car in some bizarre town parking area to eat as picnic areas just do not exist like they do in every single town in Australia. Ireland has plenty of paddocks but they are all fenced off for cows and sheeps so you can't really have a picnic. It keeps raining anyway.
We got to our b&b in claremorris where we stayed for 2 nights. My bed had ten pillows on it.
The next day we drove part of the Connemara ring out to clifden. The mountains around there in the Connemara national park are beautiful. We saw kylemore abbey from a distance. It's really nice but you have to pay to go in so we continued on. This area you need to stay a while in so you can go for walks and explore properly.
One of the nearby towns called ballinrobe, that we had to drive through three times, has the dumbest intersection EVER. It gave us grief each time and I even ended up driving the wrong way down a one way street. I can now tick that one off the list of things you never want to do.