{"id":1210,"date":"2008-07-15T13:55:57","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T12:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2008-07-15T13:55:57","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T12:55:57","slug":"walking-out-bantry-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=1210","title":{"rendered":"Walking Out Bantry Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sally (who did <a href=\"http:\/\/sallyinnorfolk.com\/2008\/07\/10\/the-sheeps-head-way-or-bog-hopping-in-ireland\/\">this excellent post<\/a> about the walk)\u00a0 and I recently walked the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sheep%27s_Head\">Sheeps Head Trail<\/a> which starts and ends in Bantry, Cork, Ireland. We did the walk in a anti-clockwise fashion, as the numbered 350+ guide posts indicate.\u00a0 We stayed the two nights we were on the peninsular in Kilchrohane. first night at the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgeviewhouse.com\"> Bridge View House<\/a>, Ann Donegan the owner kindly returned us by car to where we left the trail on the North Side. The following night we stayed at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebayviewinn.net\/\">The Bayview Inn<\/a> both decent places although the evening meal at the Bayview was much superior IMHO.<\/p>\n<p>This is our route and photographs:-<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"name\" value=\"main\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"align\" value=\"middle\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"tripId=28568\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.everytrail.com\/widget\/widget.swf\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.everytrail.com\/widget\/widget.swf\" flashvars=\"tripId=28568\" align=\"middle\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" name=\"main\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.everytrail.com\/view_trip.php?trip_id=28568\">Sheeps Head Trail<\/a> &#8211; Widget powered by EveryTrail: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everytrail.com\">GPS Geotagging<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For someone who is currently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savills.co.uk\/quickSearchDetail.aspx?ID=222047\">trying to sell their house <\/a>in the UK, it was amazing to see the forest of For Sale signs and highly unusual the many deserted, unfinished, building sites. I can&#8217;t recall seeing one Sold sign in the whole of Cork. Certainly doesn&#8217;t bode well for the UK market. Apparently rental prices are collapsing too. Even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house-for-sale-ireland.com\/Cork-property\/Kilcrohane\/Bay_View_Inn-property.html\">The Bayview Inn is up for sale <\/a>at \u20ac995,000!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1212\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1212\" style=\"width: 262px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/maggies-breakfast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1212\" title=\"Sally and Maggies-breakfast\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/maggies-breakfast-262x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sally about to eat Maggies Breakfast\" width=\"262\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/maggies-breakfast-262x300.jpg 262w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/maggies-breakfast.jpg 745w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1212\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sally about to eat Maggies Breakfast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We also stayed at Maggies superlative B&amp;B The Atlantic Shore in Bantry. If you are thinking of opening a bed and breakfast may I suggest that you visit The Atlantic Shore to see how it is done especially the breakfast, the community table groaning under Maggies home made offerings \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>See her reviews in Trip Advisor or just contact her direct on Maggie Doyle, Atlantic Shore, Newtown, Bantry 027 51310 <a href=\"mailto:divebantry@aol.com\">divebantry at aol.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sally (who did this excellent post about the walk)\u00a0 and I recently walked the Sheeps Head Trail which starts and ends in Bantry, Cork, Ireland. We did the walk in a anti-clockwise fashion, as the numbered 350+ guide posts indicate.\u00a0 We stayed the two nights we were on the peninsular in Kilchrohane. first night at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}