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Galway Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Galway, Ireland
Once Upon a Time...
This is a top pick! Today was mostly a day of running around: post office, laundry, groceries. It’s amazing how long such things take when you’re struggling to find them all! We wanted to get this done so we’d be ready to set out on our ...
Finally ~ Some people to talk to !
This is a top pick! ... neighbors from Denmark, and the laundry was clean, so we were ready to try again. The next day walking through Galway, the cute pedestrian walk ways and shops had a completely different look and feel. Amazingly WIFI pubs seemed to come out ...
Stones, stones, and more stones!
This is a top pick! ... down and made it to shore. On arrival to the island the sun was shining (which was a great contrast to drizzly Galway), but the wind was howling. The first thing we encountered was a huge hill heading right into the wind. All the ...
Cycling Again
This is a top pick! 100’s of shades of green all around you, and all you can see is the road ahead of you. Occasionally a spark of hot-pink fuchsia or sky-blue hydrangea alert you to the fact that there may be a house in behind the stone wall and thick brush ...
Lovely ride along the Coast
This is a top pick! Beautiful cycle along the hilly coast. Tried several times to video parts of the tide for you to see, but the camera would have none of it. Didn’t like the jostling or something… Went through a few small towns and saw traditional ...
Met Up With Ma and Pa Norrie!!
This is a top pick! ... by this time Jackie and I will eat almost anything so we were ok, haha. We drove for about two hours before getting to Galway (of course we smartened up and just took the tool road). We found a hostel right away with a four bed ...
An Island of Stone
This is a top pick! ... to an information centre we decided to go to the Aran Islands and check out a 3000 year old fort that was there. We drove west of Galway to where we could catch the ferry over to the islands. We had an hour before the ferry would leave so we went to look ...
Rock of Cashel - Castle
This is a top pick! We travelled as a 4some from Kit's in Kilmeague to The Rock of Cashel through the beautiful countryside of Ireland with it's typical gorse hedges and rock walls. There's no shortage of stone here so it gets put to good use as a building material in almost ...
Lost and Found Again -- European Escapades
This is a top pick! A silver car rolls by and approaches the two hikers deep in discussion at a pullover on the outskirts of Cardiff's Brecon Beacon National Park. Without hesitation the window rolls down and the man leans out. "Hey, are you two Canadian?" The ...
Cheap sweaters - from China - no more?
This is a top pick! ... were used to identify lost fishermen. Before the use of dental record matching or DNA samples. Even though the west of Ireland has been producing sweaters and jerseys and woollen and woven things for centuries, China probably beats them when it comes ...
Ca'Nuck of the Irish
This is a top pick! ... literally create an attractive culture of pride, community and the diligent use of pastels. While not exactly a cultural phenomenon, driving in Ireland was certainly a foreign experience for me and, seeing as how we rented a car for our entire 2 week stay ...
Discouragement
This is a top pick! ... as far as I know). If I do go home early, I know I should travel around a bit, at least to the parts of Ireland everyone has recommended to me (Kerry, Donegal, Northern Ireland, the Blarney Stone, the Cliffs of Moher), to Norway via Jamie, maybe to ...
Quiet weekend, Irish news, and banana eaters
This is a top pick! ... . There's one Gaelic TV station, which is subtitled in English. (I've also noticed that the Irish-language pages in the Galway Advertiser have a little glossary of hard words at the bottom...they assume that people reading those pages aren't fluent, or ...
Downs and Ups
This is a top pick! Thursday did not begin auspiciously. I got the Galway Advertiser for the job classifieds and unhappily discovered that the options were pretty limited. Just like the paper at home--labourer jobs, sales assistant, here and there a secretarial position. ...
Dashed hopes, sunsets, and friends
This is a top pick! ... family is what matters, so he'll never get to do what he loves again). I know, I know, that has implications here: I'm in Ireland, so it shouldn't matter what job I get, right? Yet somehow it does. I wasn't really thinking about that though. A nice ...
A quiet long weekend
This is a top pick! ... to be in Ireland isn't all it's cracked up to be. October 25 This was still the weekend...it's a bank holiday in Ireland, though I don't know why. Finally got photos on CD and uploaded them to my travelogue, up to Sept. 21 (Connemara). Actually I ...
On the Road Again
This is a top pick! ... Listowel. Other observations: The mid-Kerry accent (e.g. Listowel) is quite heavy, though not stereotypically Irish. The bus system in Ireland isn't particularly friendly, in that you have to know what to do and where to go--not just when getting off ...
The Last Straw
This is a top pick! ... to show up to our prearranged meeting (I thought). Seems like that's a bust. Annette from I.C.E. called after lunch. (Lunch in Ireland is from 1 to 2.) I didn't get the university job. The client had looked at 5 CV's, and done 2 interviews of ...
Freelance Digital Design Specialist
This is a top pick! ... work on a contract basis, and he paid me €10 ($15) for the hour of work I'd done. The first money I've made in Ireland! This is stuff I don't really know how to do, but I know more than he does, and I realized that I actually love tinkering around ...
A Dissertation on the Irish Pub
This is a top pick! ... all the pubs on Shop Street are standing room only on a Saturday night. Pubs really are the life of the town in Ireland. There's no equivalent to a Boston Pizza or even Second Cup...there's the Eddie Rocket's diner and some cafes and coffee shops, ...
Writers' Conference
This is a top pick! ... 's a hurricane in the Atlantic, it affects the weather and that's why it has been so windy lately. Good to know that Galway isn't always like this! I also bought a new wallet (€2) and a crinkly white shirt for work (€7!) from Penney's. Great ...
Pubbing
This is a top pick! ... . Definitely a plus for when I have a flat. That night our roommates returned from a bus tour of Connemara (wild area north of Galway). We went out to try and find last night's act, which was supposed to be playing at a different pub, but it wasn't. ...
Galway
This is a top pick! ... were also like pogo sticks. They had weird goulish voice sound effects and were chasing people around with their flaming torches). Galway certainly has quite the life. I managed to sneak away and find a mini birthday cake (meg's favourite - fruit ...
Good Conversations with New Friends
This is a top pick! ... a writer friend in Dublin so would pump him and e-mail me. They both said to stick it out, both in writing and in Ireland. Katherine revealed that when she returns to Canada she is going to study to become a holistic animal doctor, as she feels she has ...
Peace at Last
This is a top pick! ... you. Cindy says she'll always be proud of me. Kim says that no matter what, I'll still have spent two months in Ireland. I talked to Arvin on MSN tonight, and came away feeling peaceful--something that's eluded me for a long time. I don't know what ...
Three Days in Brief
This is a top pick! ... also thought about my writing career. It occurred to me that I can write travel articles about Canada for papers/magazines in Ireland and the UK, and travel articles about Ireland for markets in Canada and the US. Playing both sides--a sweet position! ...
Return to Galway
This is a top pick! ... trying to decide what to do. One of the hostel desk guys happened by on his smoke break and said Killarney is nice but small; Galway is great. Eventually I heaved myself up and went to check in again. I'm back in the 6-bed room, but there are only 4 ...
Midnight Laundry
This is a top pick! ... I felt like napping but successfully fought the desire. Instead I went job-hunting online. Lots of jobs, but none in Galway city...just Dublin and elsewhere in County Galway. Katherine had a trial shift at La Salsa in the afternoon. Looks like ...
Cliffs of Moher
This is a top pick! ... driving all day) but I really appreciated his excellent service. A great guy. The highlight of today... and of all of Ireland... has been walking along the Cliffs at Moher. This sight rates up there with Tiger Leaping Gorge as being the best scenery ...