My trip to galway Ireland: Amazing places
by jessicapaul
I recently spent a week-end in Galway with my partner. We took the train from Dublin to Galway. We stayed at Lynfield Guesthouse in College Road. It was just a two to three minute walk from the train station. The B&B was wonderful, warm and well furnished. The breakfast was top quality with a choice of full Irish of continental. There were about ten other B&B along the same street.
Galway is a great city for socialising or shopping. Quay Street has to be the most exciting street in Ireland with lots of quaint bars, restaurants and night clubs. We ate at McDonaghs Fish shop. It was obvious that it was good as the place was full and there was a queue for the take-away also. Another evening we ate at the Malt House Restaurant off Shop Street. This was more upmarket and definitely worth a visit.
We really enjoyed our break in Galway and look forward to going back sometime soon.
We stayed at: http://www.lynfieldguesthouse.com/
Wiki guide : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galway Cliffs of Moher. Feel like visiting that place again and again. View, weather everything was awesome. I think it should be included in natural wonders of World.
Food and wine is worth remembering
Tribal Dance
by orlikins
Galway City is also known as City of the Tribes' - now gather round for a little history lesson, boys and girls.
There were about 14 'Tribes' who settled in Galway back in the Norman times (1100-1200). They were largely responsible for turning Galway into a profitable trading and merchant port town. Inevitably the families intermarried, as it was unthinkable that an eligible child would marry 'down'. However the Cromwellian armies did their very best to wipe them out in the 1600's.
NIghttime with Irish Lads
by racheljapi about Some Bar in Galway
Drunken night, running around, random pub. I will tell you, I have never met nicer men then in Ireland. Totally non-threatening and a lot of fun to joke around with. They even let me smoke their pipe.
This is all around Galway, up and down the main street. Casual
Getting to Galway from Dublin
by racheljapi
If you are in Dublin and would like to go to Galway it's very easy. All you need to do is go to the bus station, buy round-trip ticket for 13 euros and be prepared for a couple hours on the road.
FYI: It costs about the same to get a one-way ticket so when in doubt, get the round trip so you have more options.
Pile on those pounds
by sourbugger about Goya Cafe
It would be difficult to get a better location in Galway for this bright and modern cafe. Called 'Goyas', it provides a range of pasteries and cakes which you can take away or enjoy in the cafe. The cafe itself is brightly painted, to the extent that I felt I was eating on the inside of a hat box.
The display of specialist wedding cakes in the shop window entices you in - and my advice is to take the bait.
It's a couple of weeks since I was there, and I remember at the time that the notation on the toilet doors amused me, but I just can't now recall what tickled my fancy.
Either way, I'm only guessing here, but i doubt that the painting of Goya's that I have selected for the image here (saturn eating his children) was the inspiration for this great little cafe ! Cake, oh the cake, let them eat cake !
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Our hostel room, 6 beds with ensuite toilet/shower
My lovely horse running through the fields...
