Summer in North County Dublin

Chinafoot

After such a beautiful weekend I thought it would be nice to have a thread for stuff to do on gorgeous days like the ones we just had. Granted, it's fairly cloudy today but indulge me

So come on folks, give us your recommendations!

Beautiful parks?
Sunny beaches?
Pubs with beer gardens?
Where to stock up on BBQ supplies?

And anything else you'd suggest for your fellow boardsies to do in order to get some air and get away from the PC for a while (it'll be here when you come back...promise!)

blastman

Along the seafront in Skerries on a sunny day is great, if you can avoid the braying yacht club types. Sitting outside Joe May's or Stoops with the sun beating down - lovely!

Fingleberries

Here are a couple...
- Ardgillan Castle
- Townley Woods (outside Drogheda on the Slane road, past the Battle of the Boyne site).
- Newbridge House (and animal farm for the young 'uns)
- Julianstown Pitch & Putt / 9-Hole Golf
-- The pub across the way have an OK beer garden.
- Gormanstown Beach
- Skerries beach (but it's not what it used to be)
- Malahide / Portmarnock Beaches
- Howth pier (get fish and chips in Beshoffs and saunter along)
- The Man O'War pub.

OK, ok, some aren't in North County Dublin, but are nearby if you can travel (less than 30 mins for most).

Bluetonic

Over 'The Moat' and Cromwells Harbour on a nice sunny day, possibly one of the nicest stretches of coast line in North County Dublin.

If you don't know where it is your not welcome.

catch--22

Bluetonic wrote:

If you don't know where it is your not welcome.

Ha ha!

Skerries Mills is worth a visit!
The estuary in Malahide and go feed the swans

FunkyDa

Sitting on a foldup chair at the viewing spot, with your binocs & airband radio, watching the 'planes come & go, at Dublin Airport.

Bluetonic

FunkyDa wrote:

Sitting on a foldup chair at the viewing spot, with your binocs & airband radio, watching the 'planes come & go, at Dublin Airport.

You can start your own thread with places to avoid, this thread is for decent outtings

Another one you can add to your thread would be standing at the end of any of the train station platforms jotting down the train numbers.

PCros

Bluetonic wrote:

You can start your own thread with places to avoid, this thread is for decent outtings

Another one you can add to your thread would be standing at the end of any of the train station platforms jotting down the train numbers.

Actually you would be suprised, planespotting is pretty good especially when they come in over Rivervalley, they pass about 60feet over your head!

As for the trains....:(

Moonbeam

Sitting in the grass opposite beshoffs on a sunny day eating chips:)

Going out to irelands eye

Bluetonic

Walking out onto Long Leg and staying there for high tide!

The Hill Billy

A walk along the coast from Skerries to Loughshinny (stopping at Smuggler's Cave if you can find it), then on to Rush via the Martello tower at Drumanagh.

meditraitor

Bluetonic wrote:

Over 'The Moat' and Cromwells Harbour on a nice sunny day, possibly one of the nicest stretches of coast line in North County Dublin.

If you don't know where it is your not welcome.

My favorite walk, was over there saturday, glorious

meditraitor

Bluetonic wrote:

Over 'The Moat' and Cromwells Harbour on a nice sunny day, possibly one of the nicest stretches of coast line in North County Dublin.

If you don't know where it is your not welcome.

My favorite walk, was over there saturday, glorious

And Lidl have a special on Disposible barby's this week, €1.99
http://www.lidl.ie/ie/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20070416.index

Unshelved

Along the seafront in Skerries on a sunny day is great, if you can avoid the braying yacht club types. Sitting outside Joe May's or Stoops with the sun beating down - lovely!

I'd prefer the "braying yacht club types" to their daytripping equivalent cluttering up the pavement for the rest of us. A whole summer of Jasons & Jacintas (prams optional) arrayed in all their unlovely glory (him shirtless, her in a strappy top if we're lucky, or just in her bra if we're not - shudder) drinking bulmers or smirnoff ice and screaming at their offspring and each other while their skin goes from grey to pink on a weekend afternoon on the Harbour Road. Throw in a couple of skangermobiles with the doors open while the stereo pumps out hip-hop loud enough to make the windows rattle and you have the reason that the locals avoid the area like the plague on Saturdays and Sundays.

Bring on the winter.

Chinafoot

Unshelved wrote:

Throw in a couple of skangermobiles with the doors open while the stereo pumps out hip-hop loud enough to make the windows rattle and you have the reason that the locals avoid the area like the plague on Saturdays and Sundays.

ROFL.

Sorry but there are plenty of "skangermobiles" around Skerries, driven by locals.

catch--22

Chinafoot wrote:

Sorry but there are plenty of "skangermobiles" around Skerries, driven by locals.

Sadly, they are everywhere!

Chinafoot

catch--22 wrote:

Sadly, they are everywhere!

Yup they sure are.

I have to laugh at the attitude that its only people from the inner city areas that carry on like Unshelved described.

Unshelved

I have to laugh at the attitude that its only people from the inner city areas that carry on like Unshelved described.

Never mentioned the inner city - are your prejudices showing? Daytrippers can come from everywhere -usually all over North Dublin , Louth, and even down from Northern Ireland.

If you want to see the Skerries equivalent you only have to try the Ballast Pit or the North Strand or the playing fields near the Mill or the South Strand beyond the Brook - I could go on.

However as our Harbour Road Skanger (HBS) is in the area where I normally like to socialise - drinking in a field being not my thing really - it's them that gets on my nerves.

meditraitor

Unshelved wrote:

Never mentioned the inner city - are your prejudices showing? Daytrippers can come from everywhere -usually all over North Dublin , Louth, and even down from Northern Ireland.

If you want to see the Skerries equivalent you only have to try the Ballast Pit or the North Strand or the playing fields near the Mill or the South Strand beyond the Brook - I could go on.

However as our Harbour Road Skanger (HBS) is in the area where I normally like to socialise - drinking in a field being not my thing really - it's them that gets on my nerves.

The color of the scangermobiles would probably clash with your rugby shirt, I can understand your anguish at people wanting to visit skerries and breathing in the same air as the locals. It might lessen the respect that the rest of us fingal serfs have for you and your ilk.
I feel your pain man.

Peace

Chinafoot

Unshelved wrote:

Never mentioned the inner city - are your prejudices showing?

You called them Jasons and Jacintas - the implication was there.

Anyway this is all completely off-topic and I'd suggest this thread get's swiftly back to what it's meant to be about.

meditraitor

Dilemma, the boss just said I could head of early 3.00 ish, now considering the theme of this thread I would like some advise

Nice leasurely stroll around ardgillan or de-Bruns beer garden with a couple of mates.

What would you do?

catch--22

Tough call! Beer garden sounds lovely though....but then I haven't had a drink in a few weeks so anything along those lines would appeal!

The Hill Billy

meditraitor wrote:

Dilemma, the boss just said I could head of early 3.00 ish, now considering the theme of this thread I would like some advise

Nice leasurely stroll around ardgillan or de-Bruns beer garden with a couple of mates.

What would you do?

Head down to Joe May's or Blue for a few quiet pints & as it is now Wednesday the boy racers' will have run out of money for petrol & will have to wait until they get their pocket-money on Friday before they can get back on the road.

meditraitor

Hill Billy wrote:

Head down to Joe May's or Blue for a few quiet pints & as it is now Wednesday the boy racers' will have run out of money for petrol & will have to wait until they get their pocket-money on Friday before they can get back on the road.

Nice idea, and probably better than de-brownshites but the lads are in de-b and wont move outside the locality

Strangely enough Im leaning towards a nice stroll, busy day tomorrow. I must getting old

catch--22

meditraitor wrote:

Strangely enough Im leaning towards a nice stroll, busy day tomorrow. I must getting old

Boooo! I think you should do both....break up the afternoon with a a nice stroll and then back to the pub...or go on a pub crawl and kill the two birds!