Saturday, January 30, 2010
Again?
Went to T&H Doolan's tonight to check out some Irish band. The band was great. We were immediately introduced to a couple of older gents who bought us drinks and chatted us up. Thirty minutes later and I was on the dance floor with Mikey spinning and tapping my boots on the ground. This happened both times I've been to the pubs. I love this place. It depends on the pub you visit but the smaller pubs are the best ones. I met Tom tonight who owns a pub up in Ballybricken (which is just up the hill - things are broken up into neighborhoods here), sells fruit, and has a horse ranch. How much of this is true, I don't know. (Apparently one of the main crops in Ireland are strawberries. I wouldn't have guessed with the weather conditions but we'll see how they compare to Cobblestone Valley come summer.) The band ended by playing the Irish national anthem in Gaelic. Everyone in the pub stood up for the song and the pub closed once the band finished. We then went to another pub but it couldn't compare. Tomorrow we are planning on going to a hurling game in Upper Ballybeg. We'll tour Waterford tomorrow since our plans to go to Cork fell through. There is some sort of Viking settlement here that I want to check out. There are also rocks similar to stonehenge here that I'd like to visit. A lot of this stuff would be exponentially easier should we own a car.
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