Before the border closes and the island descends into a Brexit-induced dark age, I am planning a trip up the West coast of Ireland in late September. We are starting and finishing in Belfast (familial reasons) and had planned on a rough circle through Galway, up the WAW, Donegal and then back to Belfast.
If anyone has any tips of good places to stay, things to visit/do or places to eat/consume litres of Guiness then please fire away!
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Who are you travelling with?
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Get a plane from inverin to the Aran Islands
Do not go to Donegal
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Inishmaan and the other islands are nice from memory. I vaguely remember camping on one of them and enjoying it.
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I loved Galway and Connemara. Connemara national park is beautiful and the coast is fantastic.
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I loved Galway and Connemara. Connemara national park is beautiful and the coast is fantastic.
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Ireland heads
Why are flats in dublin so fooking expensive? Seems like three thousand Euros (that’s three thousand pounds Sterling) is the going rate for a two bedder. I thought you guys had a big glut of speculatively built housing?
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Oh dear Laz, has the plan to become resident in Belgium before Brexit fallen through?
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Laz are you thinking of moving there and if you did would you be my dublin pal???
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agreed re property
I really want to live in Dub 4 by the canal
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Dublin house prices are insane. Worse than London when you factor in prices to earnings.
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sometimes it makes me sad that I will never have a rich banker husband to buy me a dublin 4 house
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What is Leopardstown like? I always thought that was a cool name.
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I would/will likely be a dublin head in the event of brexit Armageddon (in which case Armageddon out of here!)
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can I rent your ensuite toilet for €1000 a month, z?
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Leopardstown actually comes from town of the lepers so I assume it is a bit gloomy
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Did they change the name from Leperstown to Leopardstown deliberately then?
That's one way to kick-start your gentrification programme.
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it comes from the Irish
baile na lobhar (town of the leper)
although I am not sure actually whether there was a leperstown halfway point
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Lady P, if that has put you off Leopardstown, you still have Foxrock, the Strawberry Beds and Cherry Orchard.
The Strawberry Beds lives up to the name, the other two not so much.
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Sand House hotel in Donegal is great.
AbbeyGlen in Clifton is just like a setting for an Agatha Christie novel
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Kylemore Abbey is worth a visit.
Clifden was a bit busy for me, we went for somewhere a bit more off the beaten track (Renvyle).
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Thanks for the suggestions chaps and chapesses.
(And it is me and Mrs Pineapple going).
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