Kerry


Country Kerry in the west of Ireland includes such evocative names as Tralee, Dingle and Killarney among its attractions. Visitors are urged to explore the "Ring of Kerry", which is a circular route taking you round the Kerry Peninsula - and if you do, be sure to do the trip in a clockwise direction. All the tour coaches do it anti-clockwise and so you'll be meeting them - usually somewhere narrow and inconvenient - instead of following them as they slowly grind their way around the winding coastal road.

To my mind, however, the Dingle Peninsula is at least as attractive and has more in the way of ancient ruins to interest the visitor and it is to one of these that our first film takes us.

That said, at the end of the Kerry Peninsula you can, if you are well-heeled enough and have sufficient time - neither of which applied to me, take a boat out to Skellig Michael, the lonely monastery set on a pyramid of rock far out in the Atlantic Ocean.

I can also recommend the Ring of Beara, which circles the next peninsula south of the Kerry Peninsula. It is only half in Kerry and is not suitable for caravans, but you won't meet many other tourists the whole way round!