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This week I went to Ireland, and I’ve just got back. We went on Monday afternoon and immediately after arriving drove right across to Galway where we stayed in a backpackers’ hostel. (Barnacles Quay Street<\/a> – it was nice and clean, but I didn’t get much sleep because the other people in the dorm made too much noise.)<\/p>\n On Tuesday we drove around the Burren area, just south of Galway and took lots of photos. In the evening we headed back up past Galway and managed to find a (really nice) hostel in Oughterard<\/a> for the night.<\/p>\n On Wednesday we drove back across Tullynasheoy to the coast road, which we followed round to Leenaun, stopping off as usual to take lots of photos on the way, and to buy bodhr\u00e1ns in Roundstone.<\/a> We then took a cross country route via Tuam and Ballinasloe to get back to the main road to Dublin.<\/p>\n We got into Dublin quite late and spent a good hour or so driving around before we managed to find our way to a hostel – Four Courts – which was more pricey than the others and wasn’t very clean, but we weren’t in there for long because we had to leave at twenty past six this morning to get to the airport.<\/p>\n I took one hundred and eighteen photos with my digital camera and about ten with my film camera, but I don’t have many that are particularly outstanding, partly due to the fact that it was quite overcast on Wednesday, despite not actually raining. I’ve uploaded a few to the newly renamed British Isles Photos<\/a> page.<\/p>\n (By the way, please excuse my spelling, as the map I have here only has English versions of place names on it, and even in the towns they couldn’t make up their mind about how to spell places in English.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week I went to Ireland, and I’ve just got back. We went on Monday afternoon and immediately after arriving drove right across to Galway where we stayed in a backpackers’ hostel. (Barnacles Quay Street – it was nice and clean, but I didn’t get much sleep because the other people in the dorm made …read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"\/site\/images\/blog\/irelandlake.jpg\")
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