Well, we all know that the Irish love a drink - and how true it is.
When you want to meet up with someone - you just tell them to meet you at so-and-so pub in 5 minutes and that's how you socialise.
We are living right in the heart of tourist-ville in Galway city. From our windows you can see 3 pubs, and if we actually bother to walk out of our lane you can visit another dozen or more by just walking another 50 metres. It's crazy how many pubs are in such a little area - but even crazier how they've all always got people in them.
We are trying to have at least one pint in as many pubs as we can. At the moment we're in the low twenties I think. I'm taking a photo of each pub as we do them - so hopefully by the time we're done here we'll have a virtual map of galway - pub by pub...
The pubs are great. Generally they look small from the outside, and it isn't until you go in that you realise how big some of them are. Little nooks and crannies everywhere, stairs going up and down, little side-bars in the corners - and always full of people.
The best part about them? They are totally smoke-free! Not like at home, where pubs are partly smoke-free during meal hours - here, legally all workplaces are smoke free, so we are yet to see a ciggie in a pub all throughout ireland - it's great. Gotta feel sorry for the poor smokers, huddling close together outside in the wind and the rain and the cold - but oh well - quit!
We'll start posting photos of the pubs as we visit them, and maybe give a short description - why not.
Cheers.
2 comments:
2008 we hit the smoke free venues in oz.
In the low twenties hey.....got a bit of catching up to do deano....we'll make a good crack at it at xmas time!
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