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From the bleak underworld to the razzle dazzle of Galway July 3, 1999:
His house turns out to be a converted church, which is a favorite fantasy home of ours as well.
We took careful notes.
We came just in time for market day (Saturday), which was everything you'd want from a European style town.
At least they had the sense not to post the negative days.
No European flavor would be complete without the buskers. They ranged from the traditional instruments...
... to the superficial. (After we snapped this photo, the guy on the left stopped Kathleen and told her she should leave some money. We wanted to say "but he isn't any good." But that would have been unpleasant, so we left 20p instead.)
We find one really does meet the real people in stores. Here's the All Ireland Fifth place Step dancer doing her thing while she waits for her mom to finish buying her a new pair of shoes. The stuff she could do made ones mind boggle at the thought of a fourth place winner. Next we catch the boat to the Aran Islands, Inishmore
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Once again on the road we
found the greatest sites.
We stopped to take a
picture of this man fixing his fence, and ended up
invited to tea at his home.
We
stopped into Galway to visit Kathleen's friend Caitriona
and got to meet her husband Seamus and their darling wee
one. They treated us to dinner, showers, laundry,
breakfast, tour guides, movies, etc., etc....
The streets were windy
and the produce spilled onto the street as the people gossiped and
shopped and dodged the cars.
Galway
is capitalizing on the booming economy just like
everywhere else. They're a great staging place for tours
of the east coast of Ireland, so they're working on a
major pedestrian district. You can see here the countdown
made it to launch and the rocket still isn't finished
yet.
... to the techno bizarre
(this guy's got a sound activated ghoul that dances in
response to his rhythms -- his donation basket was really
ringing up the silver change too).
From
the dedicated...
