Inishmore - Aran Islands

Up fairly early this morning to take the short journey to the ferry port at Roseveel take a ferry over to the Aran Islands. The ferry was like nothing we had been on before - like a giant speed-boat. The trip took about 40mins and on our arrival we were bombarded with competing companies trying to win our companies to hire bikes / buses etc from them. We chose our bikes and set off on our journey around the island. We made frequent stops to look at the views and the plants. Spent even more money to visit a spectacular hill fort but we were more interested in the Astragalus danicus that grew there right next to the cliff edge. It was quite a scary business getting the data we needed to survey the population. We continued our cycle ride which now appeared to be all uphill. Once back to the harbour we had enough time to have a coffee before our trip back - which was definitely more bumpy. Too tired to cook we headed to a local fish restaurant for fish'n'chips, which was basically all we could afford.