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Lake Hotel Oughterard

Oughterard, Connemara, County Galway, Western Ireland, Ireland

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Entry #5 : Our First Language is the Bad Language.

A travel blog entry by martinfournier

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... specific rage of religion, but fortunately those prerogative words don't tend to be used by people as swear words often.

Photo : It's not like I didn't try to find a picture I'd taken to fit in there, but it's really hard to find signposts with swear words on them, and unfortunately people don't speak using speech bubbles yet. So here's a Language related picture, a signpost in Irish. Maybe I'll do an entry on that as well!
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Entrevue : Travelers of the Country of the Lyre

A travel blog entry by martinfournier

... they like to use when talking between each others, most of them can speak either English and Irish though.

Analyse : I am personally quite satisfied with this interview, the subject proved to be really interesting and Catriona seemed to know what she was talking about, even though she said that most of what she knows about Travelers is things she heard from others. The only thing I'm not sure about is their origin, I read a little about Travelers before doing the interview and ...

Everything Else

A travel blog entry by ppowers07

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... taster I
did this week. For visiting students the put together a little kind a
of intro class to the Gaelic sports. Its refereed to as GA or GAA
which is the association of hurling and football. Football as in
Gaelic football. They also refer to soccer as soccer. But anyways
hurling is so much fun its the fastest field sport in the world and
awful skilled. Basically its played with sticks like a field hockey
stick but with ...

Exploring the Connemara Region

A travel blog entry by wareameye

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... Connemara National Park and stop for photos at the stunning Kylemore Abbey. Everyone is yearning for more time here, but we have a boat to catch. Near Leenane we board a catamaran for a lunch cruise on Killary Harbor, cruising to the entrance of the harbor and back again to our starting point.

We continue driving through Joyce Country to the lovely village of Cong – the place where ...

The mighty craic

A travel blog entry by bronandjosh09

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... stopped by the grave of Yates, one of Ireland's best known Poets.

Through Glencar and past a massive waterfall, then down to Standhill beach in county Sligo - yup- Ireland has beaches. Pretty nice ones too actually - evidently the area is well known for it's surfing - the pro tour comes through Ireland and Scotland on alternating years.

The back on the big green bus and into Galway. Galway is pretty much known as being the party town (and also where my ...

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