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How to get to Ireland

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  • #62
    javaboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    They are very welcoming to foreigners in Ireland, especially those that have money to spend.

    As a foreigner in Ireland i would just like to say the following...

    "Some people are on the pitch, they think its all over......." :D

    (that will probably make no sense to you whatsoever, sorry)

    Obligatory rant about English being obsessed with 1966:

    Get over it. What have you won lately? Can't take a peno to save your life etc. 800 years.

    /obligatory rant


  • #63
    AFC_1903
    Closed Accounts Posts: 546 ✭✭✭AFC_1903


    Ireland's great craic! I came here (from NE Scotland) just over 7 years ago for a weeks holiday and enjoyed it so much I (while drunk) quit my job by postcard and stayed!

    Cork and Galway (as mentioned before) are the places to go if you are going to a city. Germany does the big city thing much better than Dublin, which is a city I personally am not a fan of. Both Cork and Galway are small, friendly, and easy to find your way around while having plenty of stuff to see and do. Also, I find that the people are friendlier than in the capital.

    For more rural places I love West Cork. Bantry and Castletownbere/Bere Island are great places to visit and are personal favourites, though most towns down there are good. If you're into hiking and hillwalking rural Kerry is very good also. The main Kerry towns are Killarney and Tralee. Killarney is full to overflowing with tourists (to the point of feeling like a theme park at times) and Tralee is full of scumbags (Sorry to break hopes and dreams about Tralee Roses there!). The small towns should be good though.


  • #64
    kaimera
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    first stop - coppers.

    some country lass will latch onto you and let you give her some baby-batter and you get a place to stay for the next 18 years.


  • #65
    Cunny-Funt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,748 ✭✭✭Cunny-Funt


    RedoX11 wrote: »
    O,o ? Why having the balls don't you like strangers in ireland or what? My English teacher was there 20 years ago and he was welcomed by some irish guys in the pub and they gave him 2 beers just because he is a german...

    Nah man thats not what I meant. I'm just saying like it takes some balls to just go out on your own and have an adventure in some random country. I'm not saying cause its dangerous.

    I'm talking about it from a 'leaving your comfort zone' perspective. I'm 23 and I deffo don;t have the balls to just up and leave to backpack or whatever to some random EU country, not on my own anyway. While one part of me would just love to, the other is a pussy whos too shy.

    Yea dig?

    Btw in Ireland we "take the piss a lot" meaning we joke with people, wind them up or whatever, this is seen as a friendly thing over here, but can be misunderstood by many people.

    Your not gonna find people in Ireland who have issues with German people at all.

    If you can find this funny then you'll be grand :

    http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=IoLIU2NI66w


  • #66
    galah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭galah


    from one German to the next (wanna found a club? ;-))

    Try Eurolines if Ryanair is too expensive.

    They're a bus service running from some German cities (Hamburg, Cologne) to Dublin (via London). They're cheap if you have the patience to sit on a bus for close to 24 hours (usually surrounded by boyscouts singing holy Christian songs...). I've done it once, and lived through it. (I also done the train version - worst mistake of my life to think it would be a good idea, or to think that trains in England and Ireland are the same standard as in the fatherland...)

    But apart from that, Ryanair is your friend - pick a mid-week departure and you should be able to get here for 30 Euros.

    Driving is definitely the most expensive and most time-consuming option...


    Apart from that - just come over and enjoy! I came to Ireland when I was 17, just for 4 weeks, and had the time of my life. Enjoyed it so much that i moved back here for a year when I was 20...and after a couple of years in Oz back to Ireland at 25...


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  • #67
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    as i always say, if you want to see Ireland, dont go to Dublin. Dublin is not alot different from anyother capital city in many ways, when i go to a foreign country i always spend some time in the city, but rather spend my time in the smaller towns around the country.

    My advice -

    go to Galway, but dont drink the water

    Go to Dublin, but avoid delivering food - esp in Tallaght.. they dont like delivery drivers there

    Go to Athlone, but avoid walking the town late at night.. ie after 8pm

    Cork is good to, but avoid engaging in conversations there.. they dont speak english.

    Belfast is a dump, ive said it before and ive got pm's from provo sympathisers warning me that its a lovely place.. The Irony

    Mayo, is a great place, particularly if you like nice countryside, and a good after pub fight. Ballinrobe is European capital of culture. NOT

    Leitrim is to be avoided, when god was making Ireland, he was going to put a big lake there, but didnt have enough water, so he just left it a waste land.

    Donegal is a rather barron area, but ive always liked it, the people are great fun - they are as mad as a box of badgers. Good thing about Donegal is tha you can take a trip through into Great Britain - i suggest Fermanagh, lovely country side hills and lakes.


  • #68
    Caoimhín
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭Caoimhín


    snyper wrote: »
    Leitrim is to be avoided,
    Fermanagh, lovely country side hills and lakes.

    So when you cross the border it turns from wasteland into beautiful countryside?

    Off the wagon huh.. you lasted longer than i ever have.


  • #69
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    caoibhin wrote: »
    So when you cross the border it turns from wasteland into beautiful countryside?
    .

    Pretty much.

    I suspect the Queen invested her Pound into making fermanagh nice, kinda like when your neighbour has a shyte lawn - you will do yours up nice to make them look bad... although- that being said.. carrich on shannon is a nice town


  • #70
    Caoimhín
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭Caoimhín


    snyper wrote: »
    Pretty much.

    I suspect the Queen invested her Pound into making fermanagh nice, kinda like when your neighbour has a shyte lawn - you will do yours up nice to make them look bad... although- that being said.. carrich on shannon is a nice town

    Meh, i like the "unkept" look.


  • #71
    RedoX11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭RedoX11


    Cunny-Funt wrote: »

    http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=IoLIU2NI66w

    quite funny - hitlr hitlr hitlr :D
    If thats the irish kind of humor then its no problem


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  • #72
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    javaboy wrote: »
    Obligatory rant about English being obsessed with 1966:

    Get over it. What have you won lately? Can't take a peno to save your life etc. 800 years.

    /obligatory rant

    Rugby World cup 2003.


  • #73
    javaboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    OPENROAD wrote: »
    Rugby World cup 2003.

    :rolleyes:


  • #74
    slipss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,025 ✭✭✭slipss


    RedoX11 wrote: »
    Ok one more question - whats your original language? A kind of English with slang ?

    This is a link to the section of this website that uses our original language by the way if you are interested. It's very different to english, here is the wikipedia page about it aswell.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_language

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=904

    One more thing, every so often a good few people that post on this website will get together for a few beers down the pub, I'm sure you would be more than welcome to come along to any that are arranged while you are over here. Just keep checking the website nearer to the time you are due to come over and the details will be posted somewhere, might be a good way to meet a few people over here.


  • #75
    RedoX11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭RedoX11


    slipss wrote: »

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=904

    wtf? ^^ don't see any english aspectes there - it sounds for me more than a nordic language like f.e. finnish ( finland dunno how the adjective is written :P ), norwegish ( same here ) and swedish


  • #76
    ninty9er
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,351 ✭✭✭ninty9er


    AFC_1903 wrote: »

    Cork and Galway (as mentioned before) are the places to go if you are going to a city. Germany does the big city thing much better than Dublin, which is a city I personally am not a fan of. Both Cork and Galway are small, friendly, and easy to find your way around while having plenty of stuff to see and do. Also, I find that the people are friendlier than in the capital.

    What have you people got against Limerick and Waterford...well not so much Waterford. Denis...bank me up here!!!


  • #77
    Alessandra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,276 ✭✭✭Alessandra


    How to get to Ireland?


    That's easy. Simply follow a backward route of the planes arriving in London.


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