Day 7 Galway

Time to go to Galway, but not without reneging on my vow to never do a Full Irish Breakfast again. I just had to do it one more time, this time with sausage, bacon, tomato, poached egg, mushrooms, and black and white pudding. It was filling, but good. Maybe I'll try it one more time?

We checked out of our comfortable guest house with their fabulous breakfasts and headed the 150 miles up to Galway. The weather was good and the drive was easy, except that we left Dingle by way of Connor Pass. It was a really scenic ride with sheep on the road and everything, but at the top of the mountain it turns into several miles of one lane road with two lanes of traffic and got a little tedious for me, frantic for Sylvia. It all ended well and we got to Galway uneventfully, except that the navigator and the driver have trouble hearing/paying attention to each other and it did lead to a few lively moments. We arrived around 2 and checked into the Jury Hotel. The Jury, being a large semi luxury hotel, isn't the type of hotel we normally like, but it was convenient, had parking nearby, and at a perfect location. They put us in a great room on the Corrib River. The Corrib is actually used by fly fishermen in the summer for salmon fishing. It's extremely fast and perfect for salmon. It had to be one of the best rooms view wise in the hotel.

View from the room

As usual the first thing on the agenda was to walk the town and try to get things figured out. After an hour of walking about we checked out a couple of pubs; Fibber Magee's, Seven, and Busker Brown's, finally deciding on Busker, mostly because Ireland was playing France in the Rugby World Cup and all the pubs were packed, and Busker happened to have two seats at the bar. Watching the match with all the excitement was fun and we're glad Ireland won because the fans in the pub were pretty passionate. Consumed a bit of beer and food there too. Sylvia had a Chicken Caesar Salad and I had fish and chips. All okay. That was the end of the day. Our first impressions of Galway were good ones so we extended our stay to three nights. More on Galway tomorrow after spending a whole day there.