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Places in Ireland that look like other countries

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  • #62
    waxon-waxoff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 395 ✭✭waxon-waxoff


    Newcastle manor estate in west Co. Dublin has an alpine/ Swiss look about it

    http://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/11-newcastle-manor-heights-newcastle-dublin/3153958


  • #63
    rainbowdrop
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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.

    There are a few villages in Co Limerick that would not be out of place in 1965.


  • #64
    Merces
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    Parts of Cork city centre, particularly side streets lined with cafes, have a very continental feel.


  • #65
    tigerboon
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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.

    Do you know those wallpapers where you can get a photo blown up to the size of a wall? You must have one of those of Portland stuck to your window.


  • #66
    topper75
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    The Red Cow area of Dublin echoes West London for me.
    Both Donegal and Kerry can fee like Scotand.
    And Wexford and Wales have such a similarity that it sometimes feels like the Rosslare-Pembroke boat just took us for a circular excursion around the Irish sea.

    There must be some geological explanation for the latter two.


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  • #67
    John_Rambo
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    DonegalBay wrote: »
    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.

    You're right. Dublin's much nicer.


  • #68
    Yamanoto
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    Dublin and Glasgow are the spit of each other.

    Smattering of Gaeilge and a rake of junkies.


  • #69
    NachoBusiness
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    You'd swear the following was the Empire State some nights ...

    Seriously though, love waterfalls and while not exactly in Niagara Falls league, they look somewhat exotic, we hold our own.

    Try and guess the locations first. It's a fun game all the family can enjoy.

    1 (
    Torc Waterfall, Killarney
    )
    2 (
    Glenariff Waterfall, Co.Antrim
    )
    3 (
    Glencar Waterfall, Leitrim
    )
    4 (
    Clare Glens, Limerick or Tipperary, fcuked if I know
    )


  • #70
    gladrags
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    Merces wrote: »
    Parts of Cork city centre, particularly side streets lined with cafes, have a very continental feel.

    So does the accent.


  • #71
    DarkyHughes
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    Bray looks like Rio. With both of them having a large Christian symbol on top of a mountain overlooking a beach.


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  • #72
    gladrags
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    DarkyHughes wrote: »
    Bray looks like Rio. With both of them having a large Christian symbol on top of a mountain overlooking a beach.

    And Las Vegas with the Casinos and dodgems.


  • #73
    FallSilently
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    Parts of Cork look like places you might find in the Republic of Ireland.


  • #74
    ngcxt6
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    Kilkenny on a sunny evening, especially the parade and rose-inn street feels like another country.


  • #75
    Maglight
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    I've always thought that Glanleam beach on Valentia looks more like the Mediterranean than the Atlantic

    http://www.valentiaisland.ie/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/glanleam-new1.jpg

    And Foster Place off College Green reminds me of Paris


  • #76
    gladrags
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    Maglight wrote: »
    I've always thought that Glanleam beach on Valentia looks more like the Mediterranean than the Atlantic

    http://www.valentiaisland.ie/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/glanleam-new1.jpg

    And Foster Place off College Green reminds me of Paris

    Was on Valentia about 20 years ago during a hot summer.

    And it does resemble a med location,plenty of sharks off its coast.


  • #77
    LordSutch
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    Killiney Bay = the Bay of Naples . . .

    So they say.


  • #78
    retalivity
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    Some of the sea stacks of donegal remind me of Iceland, or some alien planet

    http://www.liamblakephotographer.com/index.php/calendar-work/image?view=image&format=raw&type=img&id=696


  • #79
    Calibos
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    DarkyHughes wrote: »
    Bray looks like Rio. With both of them having a large Christian symbol on top of a mountain overlooking a beach.



    :D


  • #80
    fleet_admiral
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    DarkyHughes wrote: »
    Bray looks like Rio. With both of them having a large Christian symbol on top of a mountain overlooking a beach.
    Should be renamed Brayjing


  • #81
    Calibos
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    fleet_admiral wrote: »
    Should be renamed Brayjing

    Costa Del Bray actually. We've our own micro-climate nestled in the shielding embrace of the Wicklow and Dublin mountains.


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  • #82
    dd972
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    George White wrote: »
    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.

    When you're on the Enterprise Train the outskirts of Newry, Portadown and the bits coming into Central Station all have a Northern English hue.


  • #83
    [Deleted User]
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    DarkyHughes wrote: »
    Bray looks like Rio. With both of them having a large Christian symbol on top of a mountain overlooking a beach.


    Brayzil?


  • #84
    George White
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    dd972 wrote: »
    When you're on the Enterprise Train the outskirts of Newry, Portadown and the bits coming into Central Station all have a Northern English hue.

    True.
    You can almost hear the faint sound of a brass band.


  • #85
    Aglomerado
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    The fort in Sagres in southwest Portugal reminds me of the Burren. Lots of exposed rock.


  • #86
    recylingbin
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    retalivity wrote: »
    Some of the sea stacks of donegal remind me of Iceland, or some alien planet

    http://www.liamblakephotographer.com/index.php/calendar-work/image?view=image&format=raw&type=img&id=696

    Cool. Which alien planets you been to?


  • #87
    retalivity
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    recylingbin wrote: »
    Cool. Which alien planets you been to?

    Tatooine, mostly


  • #88
    [Deleted User]
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    Ireland = McChicken Nugget

    http://c0.thejournal.ie/media/2014/02/chi-4.jpg


  • #89
    cml387
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    The Yorkshire dales?


  • #90
    Mr Rhode Island Red
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    Cong, Co. Mayo looks like tries to look like a fashionable, chic French town bustling with tourists and magic and decency and wonder.

    But in reality it's full of culchies and wannabe city-folk that have an elitist air about them.

    Smelly poo poo town...all stinky and manky and dirty and yuck and dump poo poo town


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  • #91
    ToddyDoody
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    Parts of Parnell Street remind me of China


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