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Driving home for Christmas - taking the old road

  • 19-12-2008 9:41pm
    #1
    Carawaystick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭


    just thinking about the places bypassed by new roads-
    Moate for all it's haters always looked pretty with the Christmas lights. and there's the house completely covered by lights across from the old school

    Cashel - well the Rock actually. you used to come around a bend and it would appear lit up in the distance, then vanish and re-appear again much bigger.

    Any other places ?

    I presume sometime in the 22nd century we'll add Adare to the list...


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  • #2
    Amtmann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭Amtmann


    Josephine's in Urlingford. Horse and Jockey.


  • #3
    DWCommuter
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    As a child, pulling up outside Harry's of Kinnegad on a winters night was bliss. Hot bowl of soup with brown bread and a glass of milk. Unbeatable!


  • #4
    JayeL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 385 ✭✭JayeL


    Longford was impenetrable around Christmas time, no matter where you approached it from, pre-bypass.

    I always remember being stuck in a huge tailback with "red lights all around" in Longford with that song on the radio and suddenly becoming overcome with Christmas glee. And thinking "wow, Chris Rea really knows what he's talking about".

    I was 10 and it was the first and last time a Chris Rea song spoke to me.


  • #5
    Chris_533976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭Chris_533976


    I always remember being driven somewhere on Christmas Eve after dark when I was about 5 or 6. I looked up and saw a twinkling object moving across the sky and thinking to myself "Hey thats Santa". I know now that it was probably a small meteor or more likely a comet, but it made for a great childhood story :D


  • #6
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,062 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    JayeL wrote: »
    Longford was impenetrable around Christmas time, no matter where you approached it from, pre-bypass.

    I always remember being stuck in a huge tailback with "red lights all around" in Longford with that song on the radio and suddenly becoming overcome with Christmas glee. And thinking "wow, Chris Rea really knows what he's talking about".

    I was 10 and it was the first and last time a Chris Rea song spoke to me.

    Next line was "but soon there'll be a freeway". Even Chris Rea was looking forward to the bypass... :D


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  • #7
    BluntGuy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,468 ✭✭✭BluntGuy


    Carawaystick wrote: »
    I presume sometime in the 22nd century we'll add Adare to the list...

    Let's not be too optimistic... :D


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