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What the Cong?!

A travel blog entry by sarahimray

I've been to to Paris, London, Prague and Vienna. To this illustrious list I can now add Cong. We're not sure why we are staying in Cong but it seems analogous to medieval torture. Even all the Irish people we met last night were bewildered why we would bother coming here, and we are still none the wiser this evening as we sit freezing in this hostel from hell.  If you told me the hostel manager was actually an gruff ...

I'm a bog hopper!

A travel blog entry by londonpenguin

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... did what they could for their tenants, but there were plenty of landlords who decided to simply get rid of the problem. They chartered ships and had their tenants removed to Scotland, Canada, America and Australia. They usually weren't very seaworthy ships and they weren't well provisioned, so by the time a ship reached its destination, most of the people on board would have died. Ergo, these ships were known as coffin ships.

The Anglican church sent missionaries over ...

Day 181 - 28 August - Not a good start to today

A travel blog entry by wagaitwanderers

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... it looks like it could fall off the cliff anyday. Up the paddock from the library is the manor house called Downhill Castle. Would have been a very snazzy home back then.

Drove on down through Letterkenny bypassed Donegal and stopped at Ballina (not the one in New South Wales silly) for an early dinner in a lovely pub, watched Donegal get beaten by Dublin 8-6 in Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) football ...

Thanks Magella

A travel blog entry by leann-robyn

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Another island recommendation. We lucked out again and as we drove closer to the island, the sky cleared up and we yet again were lucky enough to have another good weather day for island exploring. We didn't stay on the island but only because the hostels were all booked up. If given the choice, we would’ve!

Thanking Magella who didn't lead us astray,
Leann and ...

The Quiet Man

A travel blog entry by leann-robyn

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... in Cong in 1952 and the town’s main claim to fame. It stars Ireland's starlet, Maureen O’Hara and American film legend, John Wayne. Having attended some of Maureen O’Hara’s Classic Film Festival earlier this summer in Glengarrif, and neither of us having seen it before, we figured it’d be worth a watch. A few hours later we were second guessing our decision.

Quietly putting the Quiet Man back on the shelf indefinitely,
Robyn and ...

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