10.25 am: Departure from Sligo
(horrible town) towards Galway, which is 138 km away.
Galway is one of the largest cities in
the country and is considered by many to be its cultural capital. For us, the
main attraction is its nightlife. Here you can find all kinds of pubs and
discos and flowing rivers of Guinness everywhere as well as traditional music.
As soon as we arrive, we immediately look
for the tourist office, where a very kind receptionist gives us a nice room in
a B&B by the sea. Once we drop our bags, we immediately go out to discover
the center and to do some shopping. I find
a beautiful, warm sweater, made of pure new wool coming from the Aran Island: I
fall in love and I buy it even if the price is a bit too much for my pocket.
In the evening we have dinner with fish
and chips at Fat Freddy Restaurant and then we spend a quiet evening in the
pub.
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| Galway |
May 25
The Aran Islands are three small
islands (Inishmor, Inishmaan and Inisheer) that emanate a special, exciting
atmosphere. Peaceful and far away from the modern world, they are characterized
by intense landscapes, formed by small fields separated by an impressive
network of stone walls. We get to visit them in the best time of the year,
spring, when they aren't mobbed by tourists.
In Inishmor we take a bus and have a
quick tour of the island, stopping only for the necessary time to visit the
ruins of Angus' Fort. I refer you to Wikipedia to learn about the history and
culture of these strange islands.
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| Inishmor |
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| What a terror looking down! |
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May 26
It was almost a wasted day, as we were unaware
that the things we would have done the following day do tomorrow, we could have
done them the same day. We went around the Burren, visiting the Dolmen and the Ailwee
Caves, but none of these places was spectacular. I was particularly
disappointed in the Dolmen because I thought I would have been in front of a
huge, mysterious site like Stonehenge and instead I found myself in front of a little
stone :)
In fact, the Dolmen is a kind of
prehistoric megalithic single-room tomb and, along with the site of Stonehenge,
it is one of the most well-known megalithic monuments.
This day is remembered (at 6.11 pm) only
for the fight she almost had with motorists who then told her to get lost,
saying: "You should not be driving."
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| The Dolmen |
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| Landscape of the Burren |
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