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Limerick Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Limerick, Ireland
Guiness and Leprechauns
This is a top pick! ... of Ballyheigh, this weekend was the traditional celebration of the pattern festival. This was a real glimpse into small time Ireland. Various families presumably from around the county descended on Ballyheigh for the weekend to set up stalls and peddle ...
Wandering in Ireland
This is a top pick! Limerick, a.k.a Stab City! Another driving trip in Ireland. My car in the UK is a Peugeot 206 2L GTI, my hire car this week was also a 206, but a 1.6L slug...but then Irish roads don't really lend themselves to acceleration! There is not a lot ...
Driving
This is a top pick! ... a look around an old castle and found a dead pidgeon. I then spent the entire weekend convincing Adrian that he had to write me a limerick, as we had been to Limerick. At the very end he came up with something that involved my eyes being as big as ...
Christmas and, what is that word? Relaxation?
... ; No shize. In her defense, I might have intimidated her with my Bulgarian coat (It was cold outside!). And in Ireland's defense, she had an accent from some other country, so I still have yet to experience bad Irish service. Someone ...
The Luck of the Irish
... there, it's much like spending Saint Paddies day in America, or in other countries. So, we decided to stay in Limerick. There was a whole weekend of planned events, and I definitely think we made the right decision. Friday night kicked ...
Bones and Things
... until about 1:30 and would only have about 3 hours to wander around before we would have to catch the last bus back to Limerick. I'm telling you, public transportation is pretty shabby, but still not as bad as LA! We huffed for a while. Aussie ...
Rag Week and Convention Madness
... party in order to settle arguments between families. While travelers predominantly live in rural areas, separate from the settled people, Limerick has the most travelers of the larger Irish cities. You can spot them from a mile away – I ...
Halloween, Porque Ben?
... to make a day of it. I showed my housemates King's Island, since my sense of adventure sent me through all of Limerick's finer corners, even though the general view is that Limerick is a shabby, boring city. We ran around in circles a bit, ...
Irish folklore essay on the Merry Wake
... merry wake tradition served substantially as a means of resistance for the peasant class to the control of the church in Ireland, although a discussion of other possible meanings has been included. Works Cited Bourke, A. (1993) 'More in anger than ...
A New Semester, A New Start
... , a little drizzly, fun accents. I found my room, and slept. And thus begins a new semester at the University of Limerick. Besides a few interesting seminars, concerts, and the same fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants schedule, the last three weeks ...
Stats You Could Never Live Without
... they go for socializing, and the pint is the social tool. I found a few lists on the internet and learned that Ireland and the Czech Republic are often fighting for top beer consumption in the world. I believe it. The difference between ...
A little of the daily grind
... taught me a great deal more. I chose, from a list, to write about three of the main regional styles of music in Ireland, including references to musicians and instruments. It was a good motivator to actually learn about some of the trad music in Ireland, ...
Limerick and a free hotel room
... phase us at all. The boys came up for a drink and we ended up sitting around chatting till about 1.30am, before eventually heading to Limerick town. We were so late there wasn't many options of where to go. We went into a bar with a few different levels ...
The Observant Episode
... and the Irish so small? Stay tuned. For the last of today's observations, I shall discuss the rain. It rains in Limerick every day, but the clouds move so quickly! When LA rains, it pours, and pours, for 2 weeks straight, then is ...
And I'm Home
... Art, the Frank McCourt Museum, and the Belltable Arts Center. I also strolled alleys, admiring the old mishmash of architecture. Limerick is a lovely town. Friday evening, two of my friends, my Norwegian friend and my housemate’s sister, were ...
Oh, Children
... thousands of people, mostly kids, on bicycles! Well I’ll be darned, today was the Limerick Bicycle Parade. Many people complain about how Ireland has nothing to do, then I come across some sort of interesting attempt at making something ...
The ruination of my knees by the Cliffs of Moher
... buildings are underground or flush with the face of the mountains. After our stop at the cliffs, we travelled onto the City of Limerick, staying at The George Boutique Hotel. Probably the most disappointing part of our trip, but, I think it was more ...
A New Idea of Bedtime
... I thought about it a good fifteen minutes and finally decided, but of course I’ll go. I would otherwise be sitting in Limerick, twiddling my thumbs doing diddly squat, when I could be going to a party with music and fun and meeting new ...
Presentations Galore
... . He left work early to catch the Ireland vs. Russia football match at a pub, but as he was walking along downtown Limerick, the heavens opened and rain poured down. He cursed Ireland and gave up finding a pub in the torrent, so he flagged a ...
Peaceful Goodbyes
... I am! Having the time of my life. My two study abroad housemates, Oregon and Australia, packed up their bags, leaving Limerick for good. Oregon had to catch a bus at 4am, so he was frantically packing all day. Australia was first ...
Nutritional Disgrace, Enrollment Joys
... a bus to the city center with my sturdy bag and hit the streets with a shopping list. I absolutely fell in love with Limerick. It isn’t terribly hyped, locals find it boring, tourism is almost null (there are zero hostels), and traffic ...
RAG WEEK: Do As the Irish Do.
... . Anyway, they manage to raise a large amount of money and the totals are still being added up. For everyone who isn't from Ireland and have to idea what the basis of rag week is, here you go: start drinking in the morning, either don't go to ...
Paddy's and Birthday Mayhem, Springtime is here!
... to talk about. I cycled into town and watched the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Limerick’s parade is supposedly the biggest in Ireland. The first few floats were fun, mainly because they were the Irish Army strutting their ...
And We're Off!
... day. The first part of the castle tour took me through a couple of rooms of low budget displays outlining castle and Limerick history, concluding in a very low budget, hilarious film. It really wasn't hilarious, but I laughed and took a few ...
St. Paddy's Day and the Trad Festival
... 11:30 to see the parade. When we arrived, a huge crowd was piled in to O'Connell Street (the main street in Limerick town center). Soon, the parade progressed by our location. There were displays from the military, many pipe and drum ensembles, a ...
Everything is 'Grand'
... Canada. The Irish 'lads' I have met so far say that our personalities are very similar, with the exception of our punctuality. Ireland is known to have stores open 08:00 - 16:00 ISH. The 'ish' means that they could close before, and they could ...
LIMERICK (Dingle Peninsula)
We flew into Shannon on Sunday and drove to Limerick in Ireland. We hired a FIAT car to explore Ireland via driving. We got there very late and could not find anywhere to eat. We ended up driving like half an hour to get midnight Macca's (or McDonalds if ...
Luggage Woes and Freedom!
... baggage claim after helping me put my bags on the trolley, and wished me the best for my year abroad. The University of Limerick offered an airport collection service. I signed up, knowing it would be nearly impossible to lug my 140 pounds of ...