Dear all,
this weekend was quite exciting, as I spent it with a few fellow German interns not in Dublin, but in Galway, one of Ireland's biggest west coast cities.
We headed off early on Saturday, as we wanted to caught to first Citylink Bus to Galway. We arrived shortly after 9 am and were instantly greeted by rain.
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| Galway |
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| Galway City Centre |
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| Galway Backstreet |
Without a really fixed plan in mind, we started to head to the city centre to grab some coffee/hot chocolate and visited the St. Nicholas Church and the small local street market, that took place just in front of it.
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| St. Nicholas Church |
After that, we made our way to Mutton Island and grabbed some Fish and Chips at McDonagh's, a cozy fish restaurant, afterwards.
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| View from Mutton Island |
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| View from Mutton Island |
We then had an adventurous time at Cloosh. There are some uninhabited peninsulas to which you can walk to, although you should have some sturdy shoes with you, as the pathway is really rocky and there are lots of slippery algaes around.
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| View from Cloosh |
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| View on Galway from Cloosh |
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| Rocky Pathways |
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| View from one of the Peninsulas |
Lucky us ended up meeting our Landlord at Salthill Beach, so that we didn't slept in the hostel we reserved, but in one of his small and comfy apartments near the city centre!
On Sunday we did a Cliffs of Moher tour, but the weather turned out to be even far worse than it was on Saturday (on which we had pretty much rain the whole day aside from a few dry minutes).
At first we did a small stop at Dunguaire Castle at Kinvara, where the weather was still rather steady.
After that, we visited the Burren and did a quick stop at St. Fachtnan's Cathedral in Kilfenora to see some traditional Irish Crosses. At Doolin, we finally had some time to eat lunch before we went to the Cliffs of Moher to see the worst weather we came across so far in Ireland. But luckily we also made a stop at the Baby Cliffs as a compensation, before we started to head back to Galway.
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| Dunguaire Castle |
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| The Burren |
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| Cross at Fachtnan Church |
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| Cliffs of Moher |
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| Cliffs of Moher |
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| Baby Cliffs |
At the end, we enjoyed our dinner at Murty Rabbitts where I had my best vegetarian Burger so far (esp. the chips are amazing!) and returned afterwards to the Coach Station to catch the bus back to Dublin.
Oh, and if your out to treat yourself to some hot chocolate, I can recommend you the Jungle Cafe Galway, which is pretty much next to the aforementioned Pub :)
That's it from me then.
Until then,
F
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