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Ireland Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Ireland
The home of Guinness!!
This is a top pick! Here we all are in Dublin, Ireland together. Our official last country I'll be seeing for the first time before heading back to London to hop on a plane home. :-( We have spent the last 2 nights here (18th and 19th) and definatly like Ireland ...
Home and settled now and i thought i would ...
This is a top pick! Home and settled now and i thought i would remind those who were keeping an eye on my travelogue that i have uploaded a few photos from Thailand and India etc on the site so if you scroll down here and select the entry you can see them. This is the last ...
Dublin
This is a top pick! You know you're flying to Dublin when a woman sitting next to you in her 70s orders two shots of vodka and a glass of wine during one hour flight. I thought to myself, my kind of town... This is why I purposely bought my ticket to spend my first weekend ...
Oh my Guiness!
This is a top pick! ... group of delegates from four continents, I felt very excited. Here's to a night to remember. Not many of the group had been to Ireland before, and with a line up consisting of people from Oman, the US, South Africa, France and Nigeria, to name but a few, ...
The Ring of Kerry
This is a top pick! ... saw an old man toodling along on a bicycle, reminding me very much of the frail old man in Waking Ned Devine. An Ireland Moment! Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of him. At some point we also passed a village where someone built a boat-shaped house ...
Shamrocks and Leprechauns
This is a top pick! ... and Sheila and were on the road by 8am. We drove for an hour down to Troon and caught the ferry across to Northern Ireland. We arrived at Larne, north of Belfast, at around midday and immediately set off around the coast. We hugged the coastline which, ...
Stones
This is a top pick! ... to go back to the past. Megaliths here we come. Preconceived Ideas Thailand is the land of smiles. All Aussies are bronze. Ireland is green County Clare Car picked up, Tom Tom on, and off we went. We headed off in the ...
Job interview and further doubts
This is a top pick! Interview today, for a temp job at NUIG (National University of Ireland--Galway, also apparently called University College of Galway). The campus was great, or at least the "Quad"/entry part of it. Old building with ivy on the front and a courtyard in ...
An end in sight
This is a top pick! ... for the French leg of the trip, and all accommodation has been pre-booked for the locations we'll be visiting from Ireland to Naples, Italy. All except for Venice that is. Booking reasonable accommodation ahead of schedule in Venice is a challenge, so ...
More Cairns
This is a top pick! ... sleep, we dived in the car and headed of towards our next destination. The drive was great and the scenery was how I imagined Ireland to be. Green everywhere. Even the sun came out. Then we crossed the border, and even the island that some call Ireland ...
ET Phone Home
This is a top pick! Sunday was a slow day. Katherine and I both slept really late, and the weather was rainy and blustery so we didn't feel like doing much. We did, however, trek all over town in search of a cybercafe with a webcam so I could talk to Arvin. No luck, ...
Drink Driving Laws in Ireland
This is a top pick! ... bit over the top, but on listening to talkback radio, it seems to be working. Drink driving is very much a taboo subject here in Ireland and people simply don't do it. Maybe we are a bit too liberal in Australia... from memory, I think we need a reading ...
Fiddles and Fish
This is a top pick! ... , but that evening it was super crowded, with plenty of noise. Still, we were on the second floor (called the first floor in Ireland) so above everything, and it was peaceful enough. The food was good too. Carla had a smoked salmon salad, and I had ...
The Sun Also Rises
This is a top pick! Diary excerpt, written while waiting for breakfast at The Coffee Club, a small cafe with blond wood furnishings and full-length glass windows, one block off the main pedestrian street that is the heart of Galway. "Sunshine at last after several days ...
Polish poetry and European musings
This is a top pick! ... 's still not something you want to go out in, but at the moment it still beats snow. Am I really living here? Is this really Ireland? Then why is it so much like Canada? I suppose I should have gone to Thailand instead, for that. Except for all the ...
Drivin' me bonkers
This is a top pick! We have discovered exactly why the Irish are such bad drivers. The system of licensing is ridiculous. They can get their L plates by sitting a simple theory test. They do not need any formal lessons and after the first year they can drive with L plates ...
Ma'asalama Middle East
This is a top pick! ... airport. A quick call later and Linda arranged to meet me at Heathrow for our flight to Dublin. -- Long weekend in Ireland. When most of the passengers headed to Dublin reached the departure gate, the announcement came through. "Attention, all ...
Black Monday
This is a top pick! On Monday morning Katherine and I moved into the long-termers' room so we could get the cheaper rate (€70 a week, about half-price). 6 people in 3 bunk beds in a room the same size as the one we'd been in, which only had 2 bunk beds and we'd had it ...
Easter in Belfast
This is a top pick! On Easter Sunday we signed up for a tour driving us around the Murals. We had asked at the tourist information place about how to get there and they told us it was "too dangerous" and we must do it on a tour. I'm still wondering if they got a kick back ...
Put a Cork in it
This is a top pick! ... in so was starting on the back foot. As it turns out, this enabled me to continue my flawless sunny run in Ireland as the sun broke through literally as I stepped out the front door. Unfortunately, my limited edition Canadian Club sunglasses had become ...
Home - entertaining and getting organized
This is a top pick! Entry on the way. Honest. Not that it's going to say much; the photos do all that for me. So check them out in the meantime. And ...
Where the heart is... & where 'the Honeymoon' ends
This is a top pick! · Wicklow, Ireland · GMT +0:00hrs Entry to follow... ...
The Three .....
This is a top pick! ... people call SLASH Slash Why is it called Slash. Well, some people know this, the only remaining walled town on the island of Ireland as Derry/Londonderry. I prefer Slash. It has a nicer ring to it, but it ain't no Paradise City !!! We found ...
You Killed Kenny, You Bastard
This is a top pick! ... , but they did do a good job. The tour ended in the long gallery, which we were told was the second longest room in Ireland. She did say where the first longest was, but I was pissing myself with laughter at her use of English, but then again, I was ...
Happy Birthday To Me!
This is a top pick! ... birthday away from home. I haven't spent the whole day alone. I spent much of it with Katherine Chambers, my companion in Ireland. Our experience of this adventure so far is very much filtered through each other. Today she got her hair cut short--a ...
Dingle... yes Dingle
This is a top pick! ... . We stopped a few times to walk some beaches and take in the sea air. It was a little weird to walk on a sandy beach in Ireland as that isn't something you associate with this island. On one of our stops in a little town we were in a grocery store and ...
Halloween in Ireland
This is a top pick! ... ! We headed out to see if we could catch some of the parade on Shop Street. (Yes, a Halloween parade. Remember, Halloween in Ireland doesn't involve snow, though it was pretty cold. We'd been warned that Halloween was a big deal--it was! Almost no ...
Dublin to Galway
This is a top pick! ... seems? Dublin is very busy and seems hurried. The sidewalks are narrow and busy. (There are just 4 million people in Ireland, 1 million of whom live in Dublin, and half of Dubliners are under 26!) Pedestrians don't move aside, jaywalking is rampant, ...