Ireland

Into Dublin 9am. This crazy swollen, doc said infected, on antibiotics. Walked some, took hoop on off  bus around town. Ate falafel. Oscar wilde. Walked to kayak river liffe through center of town. Checked into room and ball out for dinner
Found a nice Thai place Thai spice. Walked to the Celt for live music some the corner from our at anchor b&b.

Got up and got rental car and drive to Dingle. stopping at some coffee shop. melted cheese sandwich with more cheeses melted on top. Onto Limerick to see a castle.  

Arrived in Dingle at our next place by5 u checked in and went to our New Years dinner at chart house.then walked around waiting for fire works .drink people
Then they have a drum band lead people through

Sunday.
woke to rain and thunder,   decided to run down to Beverly park and do the mountain bike thing.
no rain down there,   Enjoyed Beverly, but my back hydraulic  brake working intermittently on Redline.   did the drop, now called J.A.N.K.

if you look close, those are my sunglasses that fell off because I was leaning too far forward.

lots of flowers in the west meadow.

Then over to Sutliff Cider for Music by the brenaman brothers  for Hard cider smoothies.

https://www.facebook.com/bernemannbros/

and then over to Baxa's sutliff bridge to hear https://www.facebook.com/CedarCountyCobras/

with peanut butter cream pie and a black bean burger.  

Friday august 3rd.

Rode after work to meet Helen at Irish Fest in Waterloo,   she was going to be a bit so I rode the towney on some of the dirt trails in sherwood forest and Hartman reserve.  The reroute in Hartman around the low flooding areas on N.A.T.E.   there is a sandy area, tough on the towney with only 28mm tires and a worn chain,  got new casette in the mail and going to put it on the first rainy night. 

So music,  a bunch of bands at Irish fest.  The Gothard sisters, the screaming orphans,  a bunch of other fellas with bagpipes.  Saturday, rode back to waterloo again,  more of the irish bands with tap dancing and more bagpipes, but also Helen's favorite, Gaelic Storm Saturday night.  good thing we saw them then, becuase they were cancelled due to rain on Sunday when we usually see them.

15 miles Sat, around 20 with me taking the woods on Friday evening.

neglected trail head near sherwood and Hartman.

 Irish guy sleeping.

 rules

and one of a VINTAGE RV

with a yapping protecting dog.

AUGUST 3 2018

a new start,
Strava link should go here, but I don't always use strava, so I am going to list rides here

last night,  from work to Waterloo Single speed  to meet Helen and have some snacks,  shrimp tacos,
Drew Hurn was playing acoustic,  nobody was paying attention to him, but he had some acoustic licks on a Santana song.

Wednesday is CVAST bike night, even though my ride starts after 8 when they are finishing up.
rode 17 miles in the woods.    FROGS, many of them,  all hopping with high arches,  just one at a time, but probably 10 over the whole trail system (GEORGE WYTH) .      smooth dark dirt,  crazy fast.  

tonight,  bike to waterloo again for Irish Fest,  Probably bike there Saturday too.   15 miles round trip each time.