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Ireland voted best tourism destination

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  • #2
    Oakboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83 ✭✭Oakboy


    Get the hell out of here with your positiveness regarding ireland! :mad: Do you not know this is boards where Ireland is hell on earth?!


  • #3
    Einhard
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    Sorry. :o


  • #4
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
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    Einhard wrote: »
    So Ireland's been rated best tourism destination in a poll carried out by Global Traveler magazine. Second year in a row too. We must be doing something right. Anyway, that's your dose of cheerful news for the day.

    What think ye of this? I think Ireland would be right up my street as a holiday spot, but then again, I'm fairly biased.

    http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/ireland-named-best-tourism-destination-us-magazine-readers-142409634.html

    Makign sure the delegation stayed well clear of Oliver St. John Gogarty's would be the main achievement, I would assume.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #5
    SEPT 23 1989
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    Global Travellers


  • #6
    BraziliaNZ
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    Does Scotland not have all we have except more dramatic scenery, cheaper prices, and a larger wilderness?


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  • #7
    weisses
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    Being a foreigner myself ... I agree with the OP

    Ireland is an amazingly beautiful country

    I call it home now


  • #8
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Einhard wrote: »
    So Ireland's been rated best tourism destination in a poll carried out by Global Traveler magazine. Second year in a row too. We must be doing something right. Anyway, that's your dose of cheerful news for the day.

    What think ye of this? I think Ireland would be right up my street as a holiday spot, but then again, I'm fairly biased.

    http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/ireland-named-best-tourism-destination-us-magazine-readers-142409634.html

    Back in my youth I was a travel whore. I've been all over this ball of water and mud we live on and it's insane how many people from places as varied as Jordan and Bolivia know a fair bit about and want to visit Ireland. Usually it's just stuff like "Roy Keane, Robbie Keane, yes, Ireland, hurrah" or memories of our fans being the best craic at international sporting events like the Olympics or world cup, but they all have this positive, fun, friendly image of Ireland. Anyone I've met overseas who has visited Ireland loved it as well.

    I reckon we're just a nice bunch really and they think the landscape is pretty because it's so different to most places. If you visit Ireland from somewhere near the tropics of equator it's like being on a different planet, especially the west coast. We lust after their beaches and heat, they think our big cliffs and green fields are beautiful.


  • #9
    Seaneh
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    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    Does Scotland not have all we have except more dramatic scenery, cheaper prices, and a larger wilderness?

    Full of Scots though.


  • #10
    StewartGriffin
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    weisses wrote: »
    Being a foreigner myself ... I agree with the OP

    Ireland is an amazingly beautiful country

    I call it home now

    Is that you Angela Merkel?


  • #11
    BraziliaNZ
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    Seaneh wrote: »
    Full of Scots though.

    They're not that bad, unless you're asking for a loan...


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  • #12
    weisses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,732 ✭✭✭weisses


    StewartGriffin wrote: »
    Is that you Angela Merkel?


    You see i didn't mention its people in my post


    Now you know why ;):D


  • #13
    spitfireIRL
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    In all fairness, Ireland's countryside scenery is brilliant on a sunny day. Like another world! :cool:


  • #14
    Seaneh
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    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    They're not that bad, unless you're asking for a loan...

    What did the Scot say when his son asked for a loan of £20?

    "£10? What the f*ck do you need £5 for?!"


  • #15
    crockholm
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    Going back in little over a week.Yippee!!!

    It is a wonderful country.


  • #16
    Seaneh
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    spitfireIRL wrote: »
    In all fairness, Ireland's countryside scenery is brilliant on a sunny day. Like another world! :cool:

    There is literally nowhere in the would I would rather be than Galway when the sun is shining. Best place on the planet. Last summer was unreal.


  • #17
    mikom
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    The best things about Ireland are those things that the government and corporate vampires have had nothing to do with.

    Landscape and people.

    Bord (bloated) failte can suck my Irish dick.


  • #18
    [Deleted User]
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    Agree that Ireland is a wonderful holiday destination. It's having to live here that's the problem! :pac:
    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    They're not that bad, unless you're asking for a loan...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W9p_NFm6qk


  • #19
    Fratton Fred
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    I've met a lot of tourists this year and the Americans really make the most of Ireland. Most are up and out at 8am and not home til 10. They'll think nothing of a day trip to the cliffs of Mohar one day, giants causeway the next and a round of golf in kinsale the day after.

    Most come with the belief that it rains constantly, so when they visit Connemara and the sun is out it only adds to their enjoyment.


  • #20
    Seaneh
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    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    I've met a lot of tourists this year and the Americans really make the most of Ireland. Most are up and out at 8am and not home til 10. They'll think nothing of a day trip to the cliffs of Mohar one day, giants causeway the next and a round of golf in kinsale the day after.

    Most come with the belief that it rains constantly, so when they visit Connemara and the sun is out it only adds to their enjoyment.

    A lot of them rent a car for the week, which is a great idea, it's only 3 hours to galway city on the motor way, not much further to cork of belfast or limerick. you really can drive from Dublin to almost anywhere and back in one day and see a lot of stuff, tis handy.


  • #21
    Fratton Fred
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    Seaneh wrote: »
    A lot of them rent a car for the week, which is a great idea, it's only 3 hours to galway city on the motor way, not much further to cork of belfast or limerick. you really can drive from Dublin to almost anywhere and back in one day and see a lot of stuff, tis handy.

    Every American group I've met have hired a car and yeah, three hours to the west coast is nothing to them.


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  • #22
    Irish Guitarist
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    There are some lovely areas where I live but they're covered in rubbish. It's sad to go for a walk in the country and see broken televisions dumped at the side of the road as well as broken glass and cigarette butts everywhere. You have to really go out of your way to find somewhere that hasn't been ruined by scumbags.


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