Things you love about Waterford ....

comeraghs

similar to the Twitter thing about Ireland ..... just a bit of positivity!


1 - Coming back over the bridge after being up the country
2 - Clonea Strand
3 - The Blackwater as it flows by Lismore castle
4 - County Hurling final day
5 - The Blues when they win
6 - seeing the new bridge about 10 miles away when coming down the motorway & knowing I´m nearly home ...


(I know this is the city forum but WE are all Deise, aren´t we?)

Arthur Scargill

Tayto Cheese and Onion Blaas

Heathen

comeraghs wrote: »

1 - Coming back over the bridge after being up the country

6 - seeing the new bridge about 10 miles away when coming down the motorway & knowing I´m nearly home ...

I have to agree with you there, im a Dub, made honorary Blaa, living here nearly 11 years now, so it is deffo a sight that feels good :-)

snuggles09

Tramore in the winter when the wind is howling and the waves are massive and you stand on the pier in your wellies and rain coat with your hood up and get soaked..then go get vinegary chips:D

abouttobebanned

After coming back from holidays I hate coming across the bridge. I always see some skanger that makes me depressed to be home.

But I will have a think of some positive things...

ziedth

For me:

A Skittles Cocktail in Harveys

bumping into a friend in town and going for a coffee/pint

christmas eve in red square. Always a nice buzz around.

Taking 45min to eat a Tacco Pizza in Apache pizza on a Saturday night and the staff never throw you out.

That view that looks over dungarvan just past the turn off to Ring on the Way to Cork.

A bridge Lift cause it always makes me smile thinking back(only because as a young lad I never saw one and always had it in my head that it was like a paddys day pirade in New York with confetti and all)

I'll also mention seeing the bridge when you've been away.

jimbojazz

The finest looking birds in the country...............but unfortunately probably the most stuck up as well:(


Dont worry I wont slam the door as I'm leaving:eek:

Joey leBlanc

jimbojazz wrote: »

The finest looking birds in the country...............but unfortunately probably the most stuck up as well:(


Dont worry I wont slam the door as I'm leaving:eek:

Agreed! That's why most of my friends (me included) are going out with girls from elsewhere in Ireland & the world!! Sorry Waterford wan's but tone down the attitude.

deisemum

As another honorary blaa that married into the place I have to say the charming men

Also how friendly people are towards strangers.

Chris P. Bacon

For me :

The best fish & chips in the world (Johnny Walkers)

The best chipper in the world (The Cleaboy)

Blaas

Sausage Blaas

Rasher Blaas

Crisp Blaas

Our beautiful accent

Beautiful beaches

Beautiful countryside

Hoffmans (when we had it)

The Maryland

Our beautiful Polish women

Our beautiful Waterford wan's

The fact that Waterford is 100 times better than KK

I have travelled a fair bit around the world and when people would ask me what part of Ireland im from,i would always proudly say Waterford and then go on to explain how it is the best county in Ireland.

jonnyfingers

1. Sitting in Downes for a pint with friends.

2. Going up the mountains for a picnic.

3. Swimming in the Guilamenes.

4. The amount of very good restaurants we have.

MitchKoobski

1. Crossing the bridge after being up in Dublin for the day.
2. Coming down the Cork Road past WIT on the way back from Cork.
3. Sitting in front of a roaring fire in Grimes while having pints and bacon fries.
4. Red Square in the evenings run up to Christmas.
5. Wandering around town aimlessly and finding some new alleyway or street you've never seen before.
6. Spraoi
7. The Forum at New Year's Eve
8. Going out to Newtown Cove when it's lashing rain with ridiculous winds, just to see the huuuuuge waves. Same goes for trying to run along Tramore Promenade with waves crashing over the rails.

abouttobebanned

I'm struggling lads. Leave it with me...

Musicman2000

jimbojazz wrote: »

The finest looking birds in the country...............but unfortunately probably the most stuck up as well:(


Dont worry I wont slam the door as I'm leaving:eek:

Jim totally agree with you there, I never met so many stuck up women in Waterford but not all of them are like that, I was over in Liverpool last weekend and the ladies were very friendly and chatty, unlike if you chat a girl up in Waterford, Its like how dare you chat me up:D

Jesus Wept

That big spooky run down place overlooking the whole town imo.

digitaldeath

The daily piebald races on the outer-ring road.

dayshah

One of my favourite things about Waterford is the word 'well'.

Musicman2000 wrote: »

Jim totally agree with you there, I never met so many stuck up women in Waterford but not all of them are like that, I was over in Liverpool last weekend and the ladies were very friendly and chatty, unlike if you chat a girl up in Waterford, Its like how dare you chat me up:D

Ah, at least the Polish ladies made the local lassies up their game

byhookorbycrook

Ardmore- the round tower, the Cliffhouse and the pottery
Mahon falls and the magic road
Stradbally cove in winter
The Towers, between Lismore and Fermoy
Lismore cathedral
The sense of peace in Mount Mellary
The Nire Valley

sunnysoutheast

Some from me:

1. Pubs like Downes or the back rooms of the Munster
2. The run-up to Christmas in the square - although it would have been cheaper to buy my own carousel!
3. Fish and chips on the Tramore seafront on a blowy day out of season - if there's anything more to life than simultaneously burning your mouth on red-hot chips and nearly freezing to death then I don't know what it is
4. Being so close to so many beautiful places for a day out with the kids - Dunmore, Garrarus, Mahon Falls, Comeraghs, Kennedy Park, Annestown, Bunmahon, Lismore....
5. Our festivals - Spraoi, Harvest, Dungarvan Food, Bluegrass....
6. The new Crystal centre and the fact that we have a fantastic and improving historic quarter for next year's tourist season, plus the tall ships are back!

SSE

Bog

The-Rigger wrote: »

That big spooky run down place overlooking the whole town imo.

Kilkenny?

mike65

abouttobebanned wrote: »

I'm struggling lads. Leave it with me...

You can be out of it in 5 mins?

abouttobebanned

I just don't want to list "the Cork Road" as something I love about waterford...i'll be back with my list later

foxylad2

5 of the best award winning chefs/Restaurants outside Dublin -
Arnaud from L'atmosphere
Bodega for good food
L'Boheme voted top 5 most romantic restaurants in Ireland
Paul @ The Tannery
Cliff House

love
Spraoi
Harvest Festival
Opera /Music Festival

Am feeling like an ambasabor for
Waterford Crystal
Undercrofts
Reginalds Tower and its cannonball
French Church
Waterford Treasures
Bishops Palace
Christchurch Cathedral
The Mall

all the bars on John St - no where like it -
all your night life in one street
pub crawls finishing up in Istanbul

love Christmas -
the buzz around the carosel
lights on Barronstrand st
the cold wintery breeze on the quay

what i miss -
working the kitchens in The Ardree -
my first week we catered for a function of 990 (c 1982)
and this was a regualar Sat night
Conferences, the grill bar, the restaurant overlooking the city
the bar - very 70's, the view from the 5th floor (where the restaurant should have been )
some one please bring it back to its former glory !!!!!!!!!!!!!

abouttobebanned

http://www.overstream.net/view.php?oid=l2naupeqenen

This is what I love about waterford.

fricatus

Wonderful restaurants, particularly La Boheme, L'Atmosphere, La Taverna (the three LA's!), Café Goa...

Dunmore... need I say more?

Some really beautiful urban views. Henrietta St always reminds me of Italy for some reason. John Roberts Square (apart from those silly things outside Sam McAuley's), the Mall (particularly since de Glass went in there). O'Connell St is such an elegant street - it would be nice if it could all be spruced up.

Some superb local businesses: Ardkeen Stores, World Wide Wines.

The view of the Quay at night was always fantastic, but I'm growing to love the view of the city from the M9 just after Mullinavat. You feel like you're arriving in a big city (and then you end up in Waterford ). It's quite spectacular.

The new bridge... the biggest and most spectacular in the country.

Blaas

Supporting the Déise (and for some reason I just love the combination of blue and white - is it that it's very aesthetically pleasing, or is it just the association that we make with our beloved hurling team?)

ziedth

I do love the hurling (and I'm not a fan of the sport even though I watch all the major games on a Sunday) and the buzz it creates around the town how you can talk to any pisshead on a night out and how everyone thinks they are................... (Ah one of the presenters of the Sunday game).

I like the Hidden Gems and places around the city that only you or I know about but everyones is different. Cup of Coffee, Nice sandwich anything really.

Great Idea for a thread BTW

irish_stevo815

I'm currently living back home in Tipperary, but was living in Waterford City for 6 years (3 for college - different places, but another 3 working there a living in Adelphi Quay). Just reading through these posts, i gotta say i miss the place. The buzz around this time of year and the lead up to christmas is amazing there. The lights, the busy shops and most recently the carousel, it's amazing. I used to love just taking a walk around the square after work in the evenings.

What i miss most though is "Ah sher we'll have the one pint in the Three Shippes for the match."...................6 hours later, falling out of Muldoons or Harveys

daftdave

glad someone mentioned the istanbul , i would kill for one , i miss them so much ..... best take away in the world , not even waterford....... or ireland.

cbmonstra

Blaas

Our beautiful accent

The Waterford sense of self deprecation

The beauty all around, mountains, valleys, the coast line

The history that can be seen by just taking a walk down to the shops

Being the oldest city in Ireland

The music scene was always brilliant and I hope it stays that way

I was a moody teenager who left Waterford at 17 vowing never to come back... I was being silly though... Back in the town 5 years now and I don't ever want to leave again.

Green Hornet

Richie Cranium wrote: »

Our beautiful accent

Come on now, that's got to be a joke right??
The town accent is the worst accent in the country by 1000 miles!

cbmonstra

Green Hornet wrote: »

Come on now, that's got to be a joke right??
The town accent is the worst accent in the country by 1000 miles!

Worse than a Cork one?

Worse than a Dublin one? Staaaaryyy Buuuudddd?

I love my accent. :cool:

Ledger

I'm not a deiseman, but being from ross, spend a lot of time in waterford myself.

Friendly atmosphere around the place in general.
Fish and Chips from Johnny Walkers or Brennans in Lismore Park.
Dunmore on a beautiful day.
Few pints in Geoffs or Masons with the lads.

montec

Richie Cranium wrote: »

For me :

The best fish & chips in the world (Johnny Walkers)

The best chipper in the world (The Cleaboy)

Blaas

Sausage Blaas

Rasher Blaas

Crisp Blaas

Our beautiful accent

Beautiful beaches

Beautiful countryside

Hoffmans (when we had it)

The Maryland

Our beautiful Polish women

Our beautiful Waterford wan's

The fact that Waterford is 100 times better than KK

I have travelled a fair bit around the world and when people would ask me what part of Ireland im from,i would always proudly say Waterford and then go on to explain how it is the best county in Ireland.

As a KK man, I would agree with most of the above and would add:
some of my all-time favourite pubs are in Waterford (Downes, T&H's The Kings and Murphy's and the Forum when there's bands on).
Definately the women but I don't think that they're that stuck up (I'm married to one so I'm biased!!!)
Walkers Fish and Chips for definate!!!
The Peoples Park.
Bringing my son out to the RSC for the odd match.

Don't see the need to bring KK into it though, most people will argue that their own County is better than their neighbours for their own personal reasons, and thats fine and the banter is good.
But this is a thread about things that you love about Waterford so it should be positive surely?

warder6161

the road to cork :P:P

Professey Chin

montec wrote: »

As a KK man, I would agree with most of the above and would add:
some of my all-time favourite pubs are in Waterford (Downes, T&H's The Kings and Murphy's and the Forum when there's bands on).
Definately the women but I don't think that they're that stuck up (I'm married to one so I'm biased!!!)
Walkers Fish and Chips for definate!!!
The Peoples Park.
Bringing my son out to the RSC for the odd match.

Thats not bias. Thats fear :pac:

Elbows22

ziedth wrote: »

For me:

A Skittles Cocktail in Harveys

.

yep - gotta love them

Chris P. Bacon

Green Hornet wrote: »

Come on now, that's got to be a joke right??
The town accent is the worst accent in the country by 1000 miles!

No its not a joke,we have the most unique accent in the world and I think its beautiful and I'm very proud of it.

Chris P. Bacon

montec wrote: »

As a KK man, I would agree with most of the

Don't see the need to bring KK into it though, most people will argue that their own County is better than their neighbours for their own personal reasons, and thats fine and the banter is good.
But this is a thread about things that you love about Waterford so it should be positive surely?

Yes the thread is about what a person loves about Waterford,and i love that Waterford is at least 100 times better than KK,I cant be more positive than that.

jimbojazz

Richie Cranium wrote: »

No its not a joke,we have the most unique accent in the world and I think its beautiful and I'm very proud of it.

Better than that Louth /Cavan accent........like a calf bawling in a handball alley

Speak Now

Richie Cranium wrote: »

No its not a joke,we have the most unique accent in the world and I think its beautiful and I'm very proud of it.

Doesn't everyone

looksee

All the seasons on the Tramore Road - the reed beds, the coloured willows and the deciduous trees as the season changes.
The Towers near Lismore
Mahon Falls
The coast road
The new bridge
My job.

montec

Richie Cranium wrote: »

Yes the thread is about what a person loves about Waterford,and i love that Waterford is at least 100 times better than KK,I cant be more positive than that.

Is it though? How did you measure that?

Ardennes1944

tramore and dunmore east's huge crazy golf place

Chris P. Bacon

montec wrote: »

Is it though? How did you measure that?

Look its my view on it and nobody else's,there is no point in ruining a good thread by going of topic,so leave it be, isn't there a kk forum around here somewhere.

dayshah

montec wrote: »

Is it though? How did you measure that?

The metric Better Than Kilkenny Scale (BTKS). Its used to rank cities all over the world.

Waterford is 100 BTKS
Limerick is 0.13 BTKS

Prague is 134 BTKS


You should be proud that Kilkenny was chosen as the benchmark.

squeakyduck

The Comeraghs (especially seeing it at sunset when the sun lights up nearly every stone on the mountain!)
The water (it's so much nicer than that in Dublin, maybe because we have our own spring! )
The peace and quiet,
BLAHS!
Going to Annestown, Clonea strand or Tramore to go to the beach - Annestown is my favourite!
My family is down there - and was raised down there, it will always be a home from home!

Ledger

squeakyduck wrote: »

BLAHS!

/Facepalm.


I think you mean BLAA'S

montec

dayshah wrote: »

The metric Better Than Kilkenny Scale (BTKS). Its used to rank cities all over the world.

Waterford is 100 BTKS
Limerick is 0.13 BTKS

Prague is 134 BTKS


You should be proud that Kilkenny was chosen as the benchmark.

Thanks for clearing that up I was wondering how it was measured.
You might want to get the scale checked out though, as your results show Prague with a higher score than Waterford....Shurley Shome Mishtake???

dannydiamond

In Waterford,
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of,
Theres nothing you can’t do,
Now you’re in Waterford,
These streets will make you feel brand new,
The lights will inspire you,
Lets here it for Waterford, Waterford, Waterford.



One hand in the air for the little city,
Street lights, big dreams all looking pretty,
No place in the World that can compare,
Put your lighters in the air, everybody say yeaaahh
Come on, come,
Yeah,


In Waterford,
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of,
Theres nothing you can’t do,
Now you’re in Waterford,
These streets will make you feel brand new,
The lights will inspire you,
Lets here it for Waterford, Watrford, Waterford,
Welcome to the bright light....

dayshah

montec wrote: »

Thanks for clearing that up I was wondering how it was measured.
You might want to get the scale checked out though, as your results show Prague with a higher score than Waterford....Shurley Shome Mishtake???

Well Prague got 13 extra points for women, 7 for the metro system, 4 for the astronomical clock, and 12 for the palace. It lost two though for the drunken English stag parties.

Cake Man

Agree with all things mentioned, love just going for a stroll on Tramore beach in the summer in the evening and the obligatory melted chocolate doughnut (or 6) in the Holiday shop! Ice creams in there unreal too!
Love the atmosphere around leading up to a Waterford match, before the '08 All Ireland final was fantastic, thought it really brought everyone together.

Used to work up the country last year for a few months and the feeling of coming over the bridge every weekend was special-just felt good to be home.