Which makes situations like this take more than one look. Not every mud drain, however, is a bridge. It can be a small river, maybe 6 meters wide, or it could be a drain featuring some slow moving mud. When you see a bridge marked on a map, over what looks to be a small river, there really are a lot of options for what this might be. We stand at a tiny bridge and admire the view.
The road starts to climb agin, and the views down over the lake are beautiful. Our plan is to take a break when we reach the off-road track that the map says is up ahead. It's peaceful, but we know we've only gone maybe 8km, and so turn our legs back to the road. We meet a family taking on the waters edge, and wait for them to leave before we start doing the exact same thing. The water is perfectly still, like a mirror as we stand leaning against a wall, panting. The trail takes you from Donegal town itself up to Lough Eske. The clouds are all hovering low on the horizon, feeling ominous and casting weird shadows across the landscape. It's late morning and already the day is incredibly humid, our t-shirts sticking to us as we keep moving up these small hills, hair plastered across our foreheads. Somehow, we've walked the right way, and wind under some bridges and start up a hill. The signage for the trail at the very beginning is pretty non-existent, so we try and follow the maps we've printed off, and the one or two uselessly placed signs out of the town.
The next morning we get up slowly, pack up our stuff and immediately stop in town for a coffee. We arrive into Donegal Town the evening before, and spend a night in the Donegal Independent Hostel - a really nice place, only a short walk out the bay from the town itself. 5th June, 2018 Day 1: Donegal Town - Bluestack Centre (23km)
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