August 24, 2023

Day 2 of our Wicklow Way walk began at the Dying Cow pub. The sun blessed us all day, a welcome relief from our wet day yesterday. We planned for a shorter day than yesterday and were sort of successful with that. I still had 24,000+ steps so I will have ice cream for dessert again!

The Dying Cow was named in to remember the night that a constable came to cite the men gathered there for drinking after hours. The proprietress explained that the men had come to help with a dying cow, not for drinking. Don’t know whether the gents avoided fines, but the pub got its name.

The countryside is beautiful. We’ve seen lots of sheep, plus some cows, some goats, some horses, and some miniature donkeys; they all look healthy and happy.

The hedgerows lining the roads are often too tall to see over. There is a lot of up and down, seems like more up. We took the set of steps to go down to a road crossing; that means going back up.

We’re hoping for more sunshine tomorrow!