Railway Carriages and Sea Caves

Dún na nGall is a cool place. You can do stuff like trek over farmland and sand-dunes to find a 2 mile long deserted beach facing Tory island where you can watch the sun set in the sea. Then you can walk back to your hostel, where you can make a midnight dinner, drink some wine, before going to sleep in your railway carriage.

You might not get to climb Mount Errigal or sail to Tory island the next day because of the shocking weather...but sure there's Magheroarty beach to walk, and plenty of bia blasta to fill your belly at Óstán Loch Altan, Gortahork.

You can stay at a small, crazy Dooey hostel in Glen Colmcille, where you might teach some Polish tourists the alternative words of Weile Weile Waile and get given some great new verses (that you might not remember coz of all the Irish coffee you drank...). Then you can rise n shine the next day, get guided to the beach by a dog called Suzy, who, it turns out, has the ulterior motive of lots of bone throwing and wave catching in mind...

And you can check out An Tráigh Bhán...or the Silver Strand...it's a gorgeous sheltered bay where the water is clear and cold...and if you swim out towards the waterfall you'll find a deep dark cave that you can swim through (if you overcome your nerves...).

And then there's Sliabh Liag or Slieve League (meaning Grey Mountain)...here's where you can overheat your 12 year old Vauxhall Astra in an attempt to negotiate a one-track road that has sheer rock on one side and a sheer drop on the other. But once you eventually reach car park, you can take yourself on a hike up Slieve Liag, to get an amazing view of Europe's highest sea cliffs, lots of mad-eyed sheep and scary drops.

Course there's other stuff you can do in Dún na nGall...but this is all I managed in three days...