Jon Crispin's Notebook

We have been spending most of our time in busy cities on this trip, so we decided to take the DART train to Howth yesterday and spend some time on the coastal path.

This is a lovely seaside  fishing village, and since it was Sunday it was a bit crowded, but we really wanted to walk, so it was worth it.

As we walked through the carpark at the beginning of the path, we saw a guy in a superman costume get out of a taxi.  We didn’t think much about it at the time since it was a few days before Halloween.  We started our walk, and some minutes later looked down to a little island just off the coast and saw him jump off a diving platform.  He is in mid-flight in this photo but it is a bit difficult to see him.  Look for the red spot on the left.  Wild.

It was a lovely day.  Not too hot, not too cool.

Ireland is really green, and like Cornwall has a really interesting variety of plants.

I can never keep these things straight, but I think this is gorse.  So lovely.

There were amazing views throughout the walk.  In the foreground is an entire field of ferns that are just starting to turn brown.

At one point the coast path crossed an enormous golf course.  We were instructed to stay quiet.  We obliged, and we did see some golfers teeing off.  It would have been a lovely day to play 18.

But by far the coolest part of the walk was when we went through the Bog of Frogs.  It was boggy, but not noticeably froggy.

We walked well over 10 miles, and it was spectacular.  It was great to get a pint and some fish and chips once back in Howth.

As we waited for the train to Dublin, a Carphone Warehouse advert kept scrolling through this sign at the station.

Once back in Dublin, we stopped at Mary’s Bar and Hardware for a whiskey.  They really love JFK here.  And the whiskey was nice.