A day in Kinvara

Well, more like 3 hours - but that was enough.

After a couple of days in London, we still had a free day on our hands, so we decided to go on a daytrip. After scouring the local bus routes, we decided on a little town that we knew nothing about - Kinvara.

It's about a half hour bus ride south of Galway, on the way to the Cliffs of Moher. No real reason for us going, but we'd read about a nice little castle sitting on the bay there.

So we got the bus down and got dropped off at the castle. Unfortunately it had closed for the year just the week before - great... Anyway we could still walk in and around the walls, just couldn't go inside (i don't know what would have been in there anyway, probably not much).
The town is basically a few streets arranged along one side of a small bay, facing the castle.
Apparently there's a 'hooker' festival in August (a hooker is a type of fishing boat, famous in the Galway area) which is worth coming for - otherwise, it's just a nice quiet little town.

So after a quick walk around the town (5 minutes does it) and a coffee in the most boring coffee/arts shop in the county, it was time to do what we'd really come for - a beer!


So we walked past a number of nice-looking pubs before coming to what we were after, a dodgy, crumbling dingy bar 'filled' with 3 locals. The next hour or two was spent listening to them rabbit on about their problems and strange thoughts - we had a great time! Funny dudes - a good craic.

Another quick walk around town and we were done. We enjoyed our few hours there - a great choice for an easy day trip.