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My time in france will be over now later today. Maybe we can switch to ireland and tell each other about out time/s there.


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As for me it was during my time as a student at the university of newcastle upon tyne when i first came to ireland. it was in january 1969 when i hitch-hiked from england to scotland - all around scotland - and from there took the ferry from stanraer to larne in northern ireland. And went from there first to belfast and then on to dublin.
 
Nope, never been to Ireland. Closest I've been was Wales.



Jeez, did you really need to start a whole new thread, just to add a poll? Surely that can be done with an edit ...
 
When hitch-hiking across N.Ireland i was given lifts by both proestants an Ccatholics , so i Ccould hear both sides. Remenber, it was in January 1969.
 
Rumpel said:
then it would be a good idea to go there once - or even more often.
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Maybe for you. You can take a train most of the way.

But for all you know I might live on the West Coast USA, and me visiting Ireland for fun would release about 2.5 tons of carbon to the atmosphere.
 
Once rented a house for a week on a coastal clifftop overlooking Dingle Bay in SW Ireland. Beautiful white sand beaches to walk on and hardly any people. Autumn time with our feet toasting in front of a big peat fire in the lounge looking out over the bay, and a little country village nearby with a tearoom that the locals seemed to like. Served a glorious Irish version of a Devonshire Tea, and accents so thick that my wife had no idea the people around us were speaking english. Really idyllic part of the world. Had staff and customers in Dublin so used to visit there several times per year from my UK base. Liked the restaurant and pub scene in Dublin. Oddly, the best Peking Duck I've had anywhere in the world was in Dublin.
 
Ishm said:
Once rented a house for a week on a coastal clifftop overlooking Dingle Bay in SW Ireland. Beautiful white sand beaches to walk on and hardly any people. Autumn time with our feet toasting in front of a big peat fire in the lounge looking out over the bay, and a little country village nearby with a tearoom that the locals seemed to like. Served a glorious Irish version of a Devonshire Tea, and accents so thick that my wife had no idea the people around us were speaking english. Really idyllic part of the world. Had staff and customers in Dublin so used to visit there several times per year from my UK base. Liked the restaurant and pub scene in Dublin. Oddly, the best Peking Duck I've had anywhere in the world was in Dublin.
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makes one feel envious!
 
in January 1969 the so-called "troubles" were about to start.

I remember: A Catholic who had given me a lift took a detour so that he could proudly show me the exact place on the street where protestors had put a police car on fire.
The molten metal could still be seen on the pavement.

Then in January of 1969 it was still an extra-ordinary and a sensational thing. Later it was seen as nothing special ......
 
In Dublin I was surprised by the vans of the "Swastika Laundry".
There vans showed a big Swastika!

The Swastika Laundry was an Irish business founded in 1912, located on Shelbourne Road, Ballsbridge, a district of Dublin. Due to its name and logo being associated with the Nazi Party in Germany, the name was changed in 1939 but their logo endured.
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en.wikipedia.org

Swastika Laundry - Wikipedia

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And:

In his Irisches Tagebuch (Irish Journal) (1957), the future Nobel Laureate, Heinrich Böll, writes about a year spent living in the west of Ireland in the 1950s. While in Dublin, before heading to County Mayo, he:

... was almost run over by a bright-red panel truck whose sole decoration was a big swastika. Had someone sold Völkischer Beobachter delivery trucks here, or did the Völkischer Beobachter still have a branch office here? This one looked exactly like those I remembered; but the driver crossed himself as he smilingly signalled to me to proceed, and on closer inspection I saw what had happened. It was simply the "Swastika Laundry," which had painted the year of its founding, 1912, clearly beneath the swastika; but the mere possibility that it might have been one of those others was enough to take my breath away.
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Are there also some Irish-Americans here who are interested in Ireland?

Or just anybody who has visited Ireland once - or more often?
 
Ishm said:
Once rented a house for a week on a coastal clifftop overlooking Dingle Bay in SW Ireland. Beautiful white sand beaches to walk on and hardly any people. Autumn time with our feet toasting in front of a big peat fire in the lounge looking out over the bay, and a little country village nearby with a tearoom that the locals seemed to like. Served a glorious Irish version of a Devonshire Tea, and accents so thick that my wife had no idea the people around us were speaking english. Really idyllic part of the world. Had staff and customers in Dublin so used to visit there several times per year from my UK base. Liked the restaurant and pub scene in Dublin. Oddly, the best Peking Duck I've had anywhere in the world was in Dublin.
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I remember Dingle Bay well. :)

And also the Devils Causeway in the North.

and Dublin, of course. :)
 
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