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Motorbike Self Guided GPX Tours Ireland 2023/24

Apr 26 2024

New Self Guided Tours route packs available for 2024. All routes supplied as either generic .gpx files (works for all satnavs, most apps, google maps etc) or Garmin .gdp files. All the routes are created in Garmin BaseCamp and based on both my guided tours and personal gallivanting.

Getting a Bit of Wild Atlantic Way – Day 8 by Eddie Smyth

Nov 24 2016

By Eddie Smyth Snow. It covered the hill tops, lawns and cars. It was freezing as I stepped out of the door into the blinding sunlight. I don’t fancy crossing the moorlands on two wheels to get to Dublin in these conditions, there was ice aplenty. Good job my ferry is not scheduled until 14:30.

Getting a Bit of Wild Atlantic Way – Day 6 by Eddie Smyth

Nov 18 2016

By Eddie Smyth It looked very much like the weather would hold today. Denis had worked out that a trip to the lesser known and more remote parts of this fabulous region would top off the trio of trips. There would be little coastline to work along and I was warned that some of the [...]

Getting a Bit of Wild Atlantic Way – Day 5 by Eddie Smyth

Nov 17 2016

By Eddie Smyth It was seriously raining after breakfast today. The view towards the hills were obliterated by low cloud and curtains of rain sweeping across the valley. We left it an hour or so hoping for the forecasted break to appear. Thankfully, it did.

Getting a Bit of Wild Atlantic Way – Day 4 by Eddie Smyth

Nov 11 2016

By Eddie Smyth After taking three days to get from Worcestershire to Killarney, via Dublin, Westport and Kilrush I now have three more days in the company of my good friend Denis who runs the biker website www.roadtrooper.com, with the promise of riding some of the most glorious touring roads you could hope to imagine [...]

Getting a Bit of Wild Atlantic Way – Day 3 by Eddie Smyth

Nov 9 2016

By Eddie Smyth It rained so had during the night I thought the TV had switched itself on and was blaring out static. I slipped out to check the bike at 08:00. It looked like a miserable puppy caught in a downpour. If only I could get it inside the hotel side door and up [...]

Getting a Bit of Wild Atlantic Way – Day 2 by Eddie Smyth

Nov 4 2016

By Eddie Smyth It was very cold outside but the sky was clear and I was optimistic that the original forecast for day would be wrong. The forecast I’d noted every day for this coming week before I set off said it would be 100% miserable.

Ride Out to Inishowen and Malin Head

Feb 26 2016

By Bernard Mc Dyre Irish translation: Inis Eoghain, meaning island of Eoghan. Eoghan Mac Neill was the son of Niall of the Nine Hostages, once High King of Ireland.