Day 100: Sleep, walk and repeat

Day 100 - Saturday, July 14th 2018: Fanore to Doolin 16 km / Total 2064 km, 18°C, cloudy

Long sleep. I really needed to sleep. No sun shining directly above my tent, quiet camping, no animals screaming. That's why I woke up at 10 am. Of course, if I had woken up earlier, I would have packed my tent before the soft rain came. I left the camping by the beach, and already some teenagers on summer camp were coming.

I then walked along the Burren landscape. It is said that it inspired J. R. R. Tolkien for the Lord of the Rings. And maybe that's true, sometimes it also makes me think of the movies. At some point, there were three buses and a lot of cars parked along the road. And many summer tourists walking on the rocks. I wondered why they stopped here, because usually, on the Wild Atlantic Way, the discovery points are very well noticed, and here there was nothing. In fact, the landscape was just the same as the last ten kilometres I've been walking, but for people coming from the South, it's a discovery. And finally, I understood why they parked there, just because it was the only place along the road where they could do it!

After that, the landscape started to change, it was less rocky, and had more flora. It also steep and the road started to get sinuous again. And when it gets up, it has to get down. Painful for my poor feet and knees. I arrived in Doolin exhausted with so many kilometres, and with soft rain. Doolin is full of hostels, hotels, B&B, and tourists. And my hostel seems to be full of children and family. But I didn't mind : they had a washing machine. It's so hard to find a place to wash my clothes that now when I see a washing machine, I use it. 

Finally, I slept very well, in a fresh, dark and quiet dorm room, and it felt so good to wear clean and dry clothes in the morning.