Day fourteen: Old Head of Kinsale to Midleton

After breakfast we cycled to Old Head Golf Club (all three of us this time) On arrival we were greeted with lots of apologies for our treatment the previous night and they couldn't have been nicer on what turned out to be one of the best days of the tour so far. Old Head is a fantastic place and a wonderful golf course and we were allowed to play a complete round rather than our usual one hole. They lent us sets of clubs each (in pink bags of course) and two buggies and gave us lunch afterwards.
Only a bit of cycling to do....
We left later than we had hoped but headed off towards Waterford via Cork. In Cork we got a bit lost and decided to call into the local Garda station for directions. They decided that the best way would be through the tunnel but then realised that bikes were not allowed. After deciding that it was just too difficult to describe the route through Cork the best idea seemed to be that we would follow a squad car through the tunnel! So we then chased a police car along the streets of Cork (with blue light flashing). At one point John hit a bump in the road and his panniers fell off so our friends with their blue light had to wait while these were retrieved.
Luckily we made it through the tunnel unscathed if a little breathless and headed on to Midleton where we stayed at a B&B.
All of the team are now sporting ridiculous suntans...tanned on arms with white hands, and tanned on legs from cycle short length down to just above the ankles with white feet. Very sexy I'm sure.