Rest day

Not a lot to report today.  This morning I got up late and had breakfast at the B&B, had a chat to another lady eating breakfast who was in the area for a wedding.  The host was also lovely.  

The B&B was about 27ks south of Sligo, so I had to make my way up through Sligo again.  At one stage I was on a dual carriageway and was wondering where all the cars were.  As I neared closer to the town it dawned on me that it was Sunday again.  When I got into town, everything was shut, there was nothing to do so I drove on.

The landscape north of Sligo was simply lovely (no surprises there), and there was a sign to a waterfall so I drove 4ks towards that.  Once I got there though, it was a 7k hike to go to the waterfall.  There were about 50 other people preparing to head off, all of them in full-on hiking gear.  I felt under-equiped, and definitely wasn't wearing the right clothes so I didn't walk to the Waterfall.  Shame, it would have been nice I'm sure.   

This photo is of the waterfall, but taken from the car after I'd driven on for a bit:

From there I thought I would stop at Enniskillen (now in Northern Ireland), but again, nothing was open so I just drove on to Omagh.  When I got here I stopped at the McDonalds to grab a salad, they didn't have that so I had a grilled chicken wrap which actually was quite nice.   While I was there I asked for directions to the hotel, and the young lad wrote down half a page of instructions for me!  So nice!

At the hotel they said that I needed to have booked ahead in order to get the Discover Ireland rate.  This is the first place that have this process so I was a bit stuck.  They said I could call them and book, but when I rang they were closed.  Another staff member though overheard the conversation I had with the staff as I said I'm sure I could book online, and this lady said I could use her computer.  I had to go upstairs to her office.  I was able to book it ok, but seemed like a pretty weird process to me.

It had rained on and off all morning, and by now it was raining heavily, by the time the staff sorted a room for me, it was 2.30 and I could go in.  After half an hour the rain subsided so I went for a short walk, then a drive around, but again, nothing was open.  I hadn't slept well last night (hence the sleep-in this morning), so I went back to my room and fell asleep for an hour.

I plan on doing nothing else for the rest of the day/night too!