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Places in Ireland that look like other countries

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  • #32
    murpho999
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    Whenever I drive through the Wicklow Mountains I feel like I'm William Wallace in Scotland. Looks the exact same.


  • #33
    MrWalsh
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    Looking out over Killiney Hill, one could be in Sorrento.


  • #34
    Calibos
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    murpho999 wrote: »
    Whenever I drive through the Wicklow Mountains I feel like I'm William Wallace in Scotland. Looks the exact same.

    Strange. I feel like I am in Scandinavia surrounded by Vikings ;)


  • #35
    Witchie
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    My home county looks like Iraq


  • #36
    MadsL
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    Parts of Route 1 in California reminded me very much of the Whest.

    http://keyholidays.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Central-Coast-Drive-on-way-to-Hearst-Castle.jpg


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  • #37
    quickbeam
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    Monaghan looks like Iraq


  • #38
    George White
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    Aren't there parts of Eastern Europe that look like Wicklow?


  • #39
    HIB
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    Baseball caps, tracksuits 'n' hoodies
    Stripes black, white and grey
    Sometimes I'm wonderin' when I walk up town
    Am I wanderin' in East L.A?


  • #40
    thisonetaken
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    The Wicklow mountains are like Tuscany. The countryside in the midlands on a good day is like Provence. Dublin city is like some bleak communist hellhole.


  • #41
    George White
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    Sometimes I'm think in Canada when I'm in Dublin.
    I've mistaken innumerable D4 chicks and asked them, "Are you Canadian?"


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  • #42
    Capt'n Midnight
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    riffmongous wrote: »
    I thought it referred to Job from the bible, having to live there was one of his tests
    http://www.thebricktestament.com/job/index.html


  • #43
    George White
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    mariaalice wrote: »
    There are a few villages in NI that would not be out of place in surrey in the UK.

    Northern Ireland and parts of Northern England, Warrington, parts of Greater Manchester, and bits of Yorkshire do look very similar to each ther.
    And the latter has been used to portray the former in various films and TV - Harry's Game, '71, Resurrection Man.


  • #44
    nc19
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    Parts of finglas remind me of the favellas in Brazil


  • #45
    RichardCeann
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    Portland, Maine and Galway city. Both similar sized cities with an artistic liberal feel, college towns with thriving bar and restaurant scenes. They also have similar surroundings, beautiful coastlines, lakes, greenery and mountains.


  • #46
    Witchie
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    quickbeam wrote: »
    Monaghan looks like Iraq

    So I said 2 posts before ya!


  • #47
    fleet_admiral
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    Dolphins Barn, south Dublin looks like Bagdad, only Bagdad is more picturesque


  • #48
    Chickentown
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    Waterford city looks like Detroit


  • #49
    For Forks Sake
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    Portarlington looks like something from Soviet-era Yugoslavia.


  • #50
    Sheep Lover
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    Mesrine65 wrote: »
    Bunclody looks like Chernobyl.

    People in Chernobyl take in kids from Bunclody every year as part of a respite program.


  • #51
    efb
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    quickbeam wrote: »
    Monaghan looks like Iraq

    A pair of boobs?


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  • #52
    [Deleted User]
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    realies wrote: »
    The terrain of the West coast of Ireland reminds me of the south west of portugal,except for the difference in weather.

    O Cebreiro up in the mountains in Galicia today is like Conamara in about 1950.

    O Cebreiro and its unique heritage


  • #53
    [Deleted User]
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    Dunford wrote: »
    Conemara and Galicia

    Got there before me!


  • #54
    jacksie66
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    This post has been deleted.


  • #55
    anncoates
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    The thread is definitely suffering from a profound lack of humorous comparisons between Irish locales and inhospitable global locations


  • #56
    John_Rambo
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    Portland, Maine and Dublin city. Both similar sized cities with an artistic liberal feel, college towns with thriving bar and restaurant scenes. They also have similar surroundings, beautiful coastlines, beaches,lakes, greenery and mountains.


  • #57
    Sheep Lover
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    anncoates wrote: »
    The thread is definitely suffering from a profound lack of humorous comparisons between Irish locales and inhospitable global locations

    Do you ever take a day off Ann?


  • #58
    anncoates
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    Sheep Lover wrote: »
    Do you ever take a day off Ann?

    Saturday and Sunday, Sheep.


  • #59
    Buona Fortuna
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    Longford remends me of Venice


  • #60
    DonegalBay
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    John_Rambo wrote: »
    Portland, Maine and Dublin city. Both similar sized cities with an artistic liberal feel, college towns with thriving bar and restaurant scenes. They also have similar surroundings, beautiful coastlines, beaches,lakes, greenery and mountains.

    Err, sarcasm?? Portland, Maine is nowhere near the size of Dublin, I should know I have lived in both. I think population of Portland is more like Galway or even less.


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  • #61
    cena
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    Ballinasloe is like alcatraz. you want to escape out of the place fast


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