After a night in a 4-people hostel room, featuring a loud snorer, I woke up with the world spinning around me. I had put in ear plugs to try to sleep through the snoring, and this gave me an ear inflammation.
I had a problem, because I had only booked the hostel for 1 night, and I don’t think I could have rested there during the day anyway. I couldn’t drive to the next hostel because I thought driving with vertigo was going to be catastrophic, and I was dead tired anyway.
I ended up walking like a zombie to a pharmacy, which pointed me to a doctor’s practice (which is actually across the road from the hostel), and I still felt shit, so I ended up trying to sleep off the problem in my rental car, and actually it was quite comfortable!
In the afternoon I felt okay enough to drive into the city centre. I walked around Killarney for a bit, got some food, and continued towards Glengarriff. I had planned to drive around the Ring of Kerry that day, but the day was gone, and I found out there was a bicycle tour around the Ring that day anyway, so I wouldn’t have been able to drive around it.
Outside of Killarney I stopped by Muckross House, a cool mansion with a huge huge green area, and great views. After that, the road entering County Cork was great; again, great hilly scenery. I stopped quite a bit to take pictures.