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Balmed Out · 29-04-2015 02:10PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Nope, just count the hotels in each town. Skib has 1!

Clon is a tourist trap. Full of hotels and restaurants and faked touristy bs. Skib...isn't. Baltimore isn't even a town, it's a tiny village. 5 hippies would make it alternative.

Clonakilty has a population two or three times that of Skibereen. What I meant is its attractions are the coastline around it and the small model railway village while Skib has a big famine center.
Clonakilty is hardly a tourist trap in fact id always have recommend it over Kinsale for people who dont like that kind of thing. Faked tourist bs??? Theres one small pub that could be considered a tourist trap everything else is geared mainly to locals. It doesnt do the whole paddywhakery stuff. That will change with some michael collins centre planned.
As for its Boheimain credentials I moved there a few years ago and commute to Cork but I know Swiss, German, French, Americans, Turks, Poles and lots of English living here. I doubt theres many rural towns as Bohemian.
As for Bantry I'd prefer Clonakilty but I do go for the odd weekend to Bantry. A little too small or not enough on there. It doesnt have as populated a hinterland as Clonakilty, people from as far as Bandon and Dunmanway will often go to Clon for shopping nights out etc. That said Ma Murphys is one of my favourite pubs, it has great hillwalking and theres not any town in Ireland that comes to mind as being in as scenic a setting.

Reoil · 29-04-2015 02:35PM

Clonee

Bahahahaha, sorry, even I couldn't keep a straight face at that one.

29-04-2015 02:48PM

Balmed Out wrote: »

Faked tourist bs??? Theres one small pub that could be considered a tourist trap everything else is geared mainly to locals. It doesnt do the whole paddywhakery stuff. That will change with some michael collins centre planned.
As for its Boheimain credentials I moved there a few years ago and commute to Cork but I know Swiss, German, French, Americans, Turks, Poles and lots of English living here. I doubt theres many rural towns as Bohemian.
As for Bantry I'd prefer Clonakilty but I do go for the odd weekend to Bantry. A little too small or not enough on there. It doesnt have as populated a hinterland as Clonakilty, people from as far as Bandon and Dunmanway will often go to Clon for shopping nights out etc. That said Ma Murphys is one of my favourite pubs, it has great hillwalking and theres not any town in Ireland that comes to mind as being in as scenic a setting.

Clon is just not my cup of tea. Great Super Valu, mind you.

I can understand why people would get out of Bandon and Mundaneway and go anywhere for the night!

Bantry is okay. Wouldn't have thought it as good a centre for hillwalking as Kenmare or Killarney, or even Glengarriff which has Knockboy and the Sugarloaf overlooking it.

Patser · 29-04-2015 02:59PM

The West of Germany.

Went there a few years ago to drive the Nurburgring and then collected my Wife to drive along the Rhine. Really didn't have great expectations of Germany as a holiday destination, it's not a place you really think of going but we loved it.

Vineyards and medieval villages along the Rhine, nightlife to rival Galway in Heidelberg (a big college town), Black Forest region for scenery and icing on the cake was accidentally going to a bug beerfest in Stuttgart (also great Mercedes museum)

iDave · 29-04-2015 03:01PM

Riga

Mr. CooL ICE · 29-04-2015 03:20PM

Bordeaux. Knew nothing about the place and assumed it would just be a big, boring industrial centre surrounded by vineyards. It was actually a beautiful city. I was there for less than 24 hours and didn't get to see much, but would love to go back there for a proper look.

29-04-2015 03:34PM

Lollipops23 wrote: »

I was in Sligo for the first time ever last year and was by how beautiful Enniscrone Beach was. Really took me by surprise.

I went to Enniscrone a few years back, with some boards friends actually!, it was my first time in Sligo and I remember falling completely in love the minute I left the main road.

Now, Sligo is my second home and I've never been back to Enniscrone!

Tombo2001 · 29-04-2015 03:45PM

Powerscourt Gardens on a Sunny Day.

Roundstone Galway, at sunset on a sunny day. Spectacular, Irelands best kept secret in my view.

The Caha pensinsula in West Cork.

North County Dublin.

Oh, and to show how much travelling I've done, Ellora Caves near Bombay, Popayan at Easter (Southern Colombia) and the AnteAtlas mountains in Morocco.

Tombo2001 · 29-04-2015 03:46PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Waterford.

The city is so grim it tarnishes the reputation of the county. The county, especially the west, has some great mountain and coastal scenery, a lively town with good restaurants in Dungarvan, lovely villages like Dunmore East, Lismore and Ardmore, plenty to see.

I'd second that, the Knockmealdowns are lovely.

I wouldn't describe Waterford as being 'so grim' though, its not the worst, not the best, somewhere in between.

kumate_champ07 · 29-04-2015 03:50PM

lazygal wrote: »

In the recovery room after having my babies. I had both via c section which I hadn't ever expected and I'd never stayed in hospital before. That incredible high after the ops is something I didn't expect and I'll never forget it.

not trying to be negative but was that the morphine?

Tombo2001 · 29-04-2015 03:53PM

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

not trying to be negative but was that the morphine?

Nope not the morphine. Nothing can prepare you for feeling you get when your child is born. The Taj Mahal, which if I've been to, and is unexpectedly impressive, is in the ha'penny place beside it.

Hoop66 · 29-04-2015 03:53PM

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Tehran.

Super place if you know where and what you're doing.

One of the most beautiful cities in the world.

People always thought I was taking the piss when I said it had a thriving underground dance scene in the late 90s, but it did!

29-04-2015 03:54PM

West Cork. Anywhere I visited in West Cork was just fantastic.

Kinsale in particular. Might have to go back there soon

Yurt2 · 29-04-2015 04:04PM

Glasgow surprised me. Decent music scene, super friendly locals (if unintelligible), relatively cheap, plenty of museums and culture to be found. Wasn't half as Trainspotting as I was expecting.

Hoop66 · 29-04-2015 04:05PM

Trainspotting was Edinburgh.

Magico Gonzalez · 29-04-2015 04:10PM

Dundalk is not... as awful as it once was.

The_Kew_Tour · 29-04-2015 04:23PM

Hoop66 wrote: »

One of the most beautiful cities in the world.

People always thought I was taking the piss when I said it had a thriving underground dance scene in the late 90s, but it did!

Be honest I would not have believed you till I went there. Totally agree what you say now savage spot.

and the women!!!!;)

29-04-2015 04:35PM

Tombo2001 wrote: »

The Caha pensinsula in West Cork.

The Beara Peninsula.

It is lovely.

Egginacup · 29-04-2015 04:50PM

I actually hopped off the train (just on a whim) to spend a night in Stuttgart, expecting a typical industrial German kip.
It was not a bad little city and I had a good time on my stopover.

crestglan · 29-04-2015 05:46PM

County Clare has some of the best beaches I have ever seen West Cork is also beautiful

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