Victoria Hotel Galway
Victoria Place,, off Eyre Square Galway, County Galway, Western Ireland, Ireland
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At least I didn't blow over.
... 100 pounds to Crean. He then went on expedition with Ernest Shackleton. It was a horrible, awful expedition that lasted a helluva lot longer than it should have, but all the men from the party returned safely to Europe. Shackleton asked Crean to go with him on another expedition, but Crean had had enough and with the 100 pounds that Mrs. Scott had given him, he opened a pub called The South Pole Inn, which we passed. There's a penguin on the side. Declan passed around a photo of ...
I'll have two pints of Hooker please!
... about them so we attempted to hit all of those. We saw the Spanish arch with dates back to when the city was walled. Then we walked to toward the cathedral and I got us a little lost. Fortunately we figured out that we had missed a turn and we made our way back and eventually found the cathedral. We also walked through Eyre Square which has a small monument to John F. Kennedy. Among the other sites we saw were some old 'castles', an old jewelers and a really old church. There ...
A day of sights
... up with the lead car, got around them, and we were off.
The advice about Bunratty Castle proved correct. It’s a castle that was renovated back in the 1950’s, and it’s really fun and interesting to go through. There are towers on all four corners, and you can go up all four, and actually out on top on two of them. The stairways are narrow, steep, and winding but it’s really kind of fun getting up and down them. And there are rooms ...
My new home
... to do the awkward scanning around the unfamiliar cafeteria with so many faces i dont know to find a place to sit. ive been lucky so far and havent had to sit alone-phew!
i forgot to mention that i am also not used to the brogue here. lots of people dont have that bad of one but people from the north, like my suitemate, have very thick, hard to understand accents. this has caused a few awkward moments but nothing too ...
Galway walk about
... Ron went to find me. Ron found me coming down to the ground level and shortly thereafter we headed over to the campus which made for a nice walk along the River Corrib that has canals on either side of it - very unique. The campus is fairly large with a large population based on what we saw. After a stop at the Student Union for a cup of coffee and another look at our map, we took a quick tour of the Cathedral of St. Nicholas which was completed in 1965 ...
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