Favourite / Least favourite thing about being from Wicklow

spank_inferno · 13-11-2007 10:57PM #1

We've all been in sutuations where in conversation someone says " so where are you from", responding Wicklow can receive responses as varied as 'sheep sh*ggers to 'west brits'.

But I'm proud to be from wicklow! I almost get boastful about it in turn.
(scenery, accessability, higher property values etc)

So I ask... what is peoples favourite (and least favourite) thing about the county we call home

for me: Fave = the scenery and countryside
least fave = wicklow never winning a senior all ireland

pd101 · 14-11-2007 04:13PM

spank_inferno wrote: »

least fave = wicklow never winning a senior all ireland

Yeah thats definitely my least favourite thing.

Favourite things are close to the capital, scenery, near the sea, golf courses etc.

Delganys Finest · 14-11-2007 05:41PM

Favourite= The beautiful scenery,wildlife and the general best of both worlds of it.
Least favourite=bad public transport,worse planning

Lawless_Samurai · 14-11-2007 08:45PM

Wheres Wicklow???

:D

Ah I'm only messing know a couple of people from college that are from Wicklow that are sound out and ye are bang on about the scenery and that!

:):D

birdwatcher · 15-11-2007 01:17PM

favourite thing; the sheep :rolleyes:
least favourite thing: the traffic

Eoin · 15-11-2007 01:32PM

Favourite - The scenery. The drive down the coast road to Greystones has some absolutely stunning views. I really miss living in Greystones for that reason alone.

Least Favourite - has to be the commute. Even from Bray, it takes an inordinate amount of time to get into the city centre.

shinny · 15-11-2007 05:36PM

Favourite thing - Yep, the scenery. Well we're not called the Garden County for nothing

Least - used to be the commute but I work from home now, so least favourite, all the Dubs that moved in here, lol (ok, my folks are Dubs, but they've been here nearly 40yrs !!)

Spank, I'm a bit like you in the sense that I have "boasted" about Wicklow before !! I often boast that we were the last county to be taken over by the English too, that always shuts them up.

John Mason · 16-11-2007 04:32PM

least favourite = wicklow have never won any major sporting event and people from Dublin who tell me that i am really from Dublin and that Wicklow is just a Dublin want to be country

favourite = the scenry, the fact that you be right beside the sea, in the country, surround by mountains and only 30 mins from Dublin (well my part of wicklow anyway)

I AM A WICKLA WOMAN AND PROUD:D

pirelli · 16-11-2007 04:51PM

The N11 nearly all the way to wexford is Motorway. Loughlinstown to wexford in an hour is possible. Other than that it would have to be the mountains and tiglin and the rivers and lakes and the pubs in glendalough and about the mountains,There is so many pituresque places in wicklow and further south the people are friendlier and the towns have a good athmosphere and there is brittas bay although north wicklow has no Sports for the working class.

number_1 · 18-11-2007 01:39PM

pirelli wrote: »

The N11 nearly all the way to wexford is Motorway.

Haha, good one!! The N11 is motorway from Loughlinstown to just past Bray, then dual carriageway to Rathnew, then a lethal narrow winding road all the way to Arklow, then dual carriageway to just past Gorey, then single carriageway all the way to Wexford!

pirelli wrote: »

Loughlinstown to wexford in an hour is possible.

Do you own a plane, or maybe a helicopter?

Lil' Smiler · 18-11-2007 10:31PM

Least: the cost of a taxi from town

Favourite: I do love the harbour in Bray, gotta love those swans!!

John Mason · 19-11-2007 12:52PM

Lil' Smiler wrote: »

Favourite: I do love the harbour in Bray, gotta love those swans!!

unless the weather has been really bad for a few days and they havent been fed and they surround you, like a scene from "The Birds" - i still have nightmares about it

pirelli · 19-11-2007 07:55PM

number_1 wrote: »

Haha, good one!! The N11 is motorway from Loughlinstown ..............
Do you own a plane, or maybe a helicopter?

http://www.helis.com/howflies/maxspeed.php

Lol

I have a very fast bike.Much faster than a helicopter. I have provided a link to explain this. There is a substanially better road system today than only 10 years ago. Your joking if you havent noticed that. The N11 while not complete is still a very good road compared to the average of the other 32 counties.Comparitively the N11 is a good road for the county and connects directly to the M50. It is classed as a dualcarriageway or a motorway as to the quality and size of the constuction Wikipedia.
The N1,M1, M11 and N11 form part of the E1 Trans European route which runs from Larne in Northern Ireland via Dublin down the East coast of Ireland to the Iberian Peninsula via Lisbon and ending at Seville in Southern Spain and as such is an important Road for the county and asset for the economy of wicklow. Wexford is only 50 miles from louglinstown to the border of wexford. The bus would nearly get you there in an hour. Fly away now.

http://www.tuppenceworth.ie/Travel/N11.html

Lil' Smiler · 19-11-2007 10:17PM

irishbird wrote: »

unless the weather has been really bad for a few days and they havent been fed and they surround you, like a scene from "The Birds" - i still have nightmares about it

That's very true!!

my poor dog won't get out of the car if we go down there because when she was a pup 7 years ago she tried to make friends with the swans! They hissed and flapped their wings and chased her, was quite hilarious!!:D

SlinkyToo · 20-11-2007 10:08AM

Least Favorite : 1) People say ah yes Greystones, you are not really from Wicklow, you are a wannabe Dub.

2) The waste of a good field by the GAA, that could be used for more houses. Most people in Greystones think Gaelic Games are Irish people playing rugby.

3) Travelling miles to a Cinema, just because owners think they can knock down the local fleapits and build apartments.

Thing I like : 1) The Greystones Harbour while it lasts
2) The Mountains
3) Brittas Bay
4) Most of the people

Don't get me started on the transport. Years of work and we still only have dual carriageways in this country.

number_1 · 20-11-2007 10:56AM

pirelli wrote: »

http://www.helis.com/howflies/maxspeed.php

Lol

I have a very fast bike.Much faster than a helicopter. I have provided a link to explain this.

Yes thanks for proving my point! I too have a very fast bike. It however is unable to achieve average speeds which can match the journey speed of a helicopter (>150mph). It's not my fault, it's those pesky corners! How dare God create this land with hills!

Euro Route 1 has always covered Belfast to Rosslare. That is only a route designation, it is not a description of the quality of the roads it covers.

The M11 covers 0.8km. The dual carriageway stretches of the N11 cover around a total of 60 km. The other HALF of the the road is a single two way road going through towns and villages.

Loughlinstown to Wexford is 124km. 56km of that is the distance from Arklow to Loughlinstown. This morning's traffic took 1 hour and 10 minutes to cover that distance. I ain't speculating, this is what happens.

56 km = 70 minutes
124km = ???

Do the maths.

You fly away now while traffic sits bumper to bumper on the superhighway running along the entire east coast!

SlinkyToo · 20-11-2007 11:03AM

Sounds likes someone works for the ministry of transport. Looks we have never had it so good.

If only I could make use of this new system instead of the pesky OLD M11/M50 that I use where it takes 45 minutes to get from Sandyford to Greystones.

No matter what roads we have, we will always have traffic jams until Irish Drivers learn how to drive properly.

pirelli · 22-11-2007 01:15AM

number_1 wrote: »

You fly away now while traffic sits bumper to bumper on the superhighway running along the entire east coast!

?? I like the N11 and that is my choice, If you want to get technical I will race you to wexford on it otherwise heat your turbines and jetison to the RSA with your complaints. I can only put my hand up and say I worked on the motorway, I cant say I took bribes and ran a pencil across some map, nor did I chain myself to a tree.

pirelli · 22-11-2007 01:29AM

SlinkyToo wrote: »

Least Favorite : 1)

Don't get me started on the transport. Years of work and we still only have dual carriageways in this country.

True if the N11 south of Bray is a dual carriageway then the reason there are digging up the M50 is they forgot to put in an extra lane to make it technically a motorway. I cant see a difference other than the techincal fact that the N11 was designed to be more narrow due to an enhanced feature of modern road design which was does less damage to the environment and takes less land.

HashSlinging · 25-11-2007 10:11PM

Fav thing about living in wicklow would be the mountains, forests, nature, rivers, pubs, food, in that order.

Least fav thing... is the driving habits of people who seem to always turn off for Charlesland/Greystones/Delgany.

JJJJNR · 25-11-2007 10:14PM

+1

SlinkyToo · 26-11-2007 01:34PM

Driving habits full stop. L Plates and Hazard Lights aplenty.

I thought BMW drivers in the UK were knobends but my god they are surgically enhanced dickheads over here.

It seems the older your beamer the bigger the attitude.

pirelli · 28-11-2007 06:59PM

After reading your post i went to the glen of the downs (thread) on a hunch and sure enough there was an equally humourous objection . LOL

Jackz · 04-12-2007 09:34PM

People thinking I live east of the mountains when I say Wicklow

pd101 · 05-12-2007 04:37PM

+1

Lawless_Samurai · 05-12-2007 04:39PM

So..... Do you live East of the Mountains???

The Real B-man · 06-12-2007 12:14AM

Live beside the sea, 15mins from the Mountains, 40mins from City Center Served by Dublin Bus

Lawless_Samurai · 06-12-2007 11:58AM

Fair enough!!!

:):D

ballinagee boy · 06-12-2007 03:50PM

The Wicklow Gap... the most beautiful spot in Ireland!!

pirelli · 09-12-2007 06:54PM

The Gap is barren and the weather is cooler with the clouds rolling in very low at the crossroads. The road along Kippure is almost the border of dublin while the military road is the highest public road in the country.

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wasted_winter · 13-12-2007 10:47AM

To the 'Where are you from?' question I can bet on getting one of three responses:

1. Jaysus... sheep shaggers... boggers.... wickla.... blah, blah, blah. We've all heard it!

2. Wow! Where in Wicklow? I love it there... do you live near X... have you gone to Y.....

3. God.... and you drive 'up here' (D4) every day? How long does that take you? (They are referring to the fact that they seem to think Wicklow is located somewhere around Cork and not the traffic nightmare that is the N11)

My favourite thing? Too many to list. I love it... in the future when I can eventually afford to buy a place of my own (ha!) I would stay in Wicklow... around the area I live in now (just not in it!).

The least favourite thing? Working in Dublin generally means socialising in Dublin... and this can be an expensive expedition! A taxi from D4 - straight down the N11 - outside 'peak traffic hours' is €80 as quoted to me last week (before I keeled over - good job the alcohol numbed the pain of forking it over). There is the option of various nitelinks and taxis, etc, which is great if you are in a group.... but not for a single person standing in the dark waiting for a taxi that may or may not turn up!
Yeah... I could probably just sum it up with lack of proper public transport and traffic chaos.

Favourite / Least favourite thing about being from Wicklow

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