The Winkies and Poolbeg at 5.30am
Pints of Guinness and Streedagh Beach, Grange and Sligo, Ireland - 9th August 2021
The overnight ferry from Liverpool docks in Dublin Port, and after a few hours' kip at Da Gorls in Monkstown Farm, we're off on the 250 mile trip across Ireland to Sligo in the north west. On the way, we stop off in The Mullies near Manorhamilton to see Philly and Davida, and finally end up in a bar in Sligo for a much-needed pint of Guinness, thanks largely to the hapless waiter of Rugantino restaurant who wouldn't let us in because Nosher's UK NHS covid pass wouldn't scan with the Irish health system's app, for some reason he couldn't figure out. After that, we head over for the first of many trips to Streedagh Beach, or Trá na Strithidí, near Grange - a few miles up the coast from Sligo - and then for the first of many walks from our base in student accommodation in the grounds of the Clayton Hotel down via the campus of IT Sligo into the town itself.
next album: A Trip to Manorhamilton, County Leitrim, Ireland - 11th August 2021
previous album: Pork Pies and Dockside Dereliction, Melton Mowbray and Liverpool - 7th August 2021
The lighthouse of Dublin Port
The Odlums silos
Looking up the Liffey
Fred peers out over the docks
Fred points to oily water on the ferry's deck
The deck of the freight ferry
We wait in the bar area before disembarking
The few cars are squeezed in between trailers
The exit onto the M4 to Sligo
Isobel heads into Applegreen services on the M4
A derelict shop at Rathowen
A derelict house, which has lost its roof
The remains of a derelict bar
Another closed-down bar in Rathowen
The car outside the derelict shop
A cool old-school roadside petrol station
We stop off at SuperValu in Manorhamilton
Isobel gets some Ferrero Rocher
Isobel heads of with a basket of goodies
The SuperValu car park
Louise has a beer and a ciggie
Fred returns from a trip to the trampoline
Evelyn and Davida chat
Rachel, Fern and Fred return from the trampoline
There's a bicycle hanging up in Philly's shed
Harry swings around in the trees
Harry has a swing
Kitchen life
We find a cool beetle crawling around
Isobel takes a photo of the insect
A pair of boots hang up on an outside light
Philly's new fence
A few spiders join in with the beetle action
Isobel pours a glass of wine
Up at Philly's house
Fred waits in reception at Benbulben Court
A derelict building near Benbulben Court
Walking down The Mall/An Meal
The Garavogue river is running full and fast
The boys wait for pizza outside Rugantino
Harry and Isobel in Fiddlers Creek
Fiddler's Creek bar in Sligo
The first pint of Guinness
A closed-down newsagent on Grattan Street
We eat pizza in the apartment
Noddy comes over as Isobel plays fiddle
The Clayton Hotel in Sligo
The boys on Streedagh Beach
The empty lifeguard hut on Streedagh beach
Harry digs in the sand
The boys haul a massive lump of seaweed around
Fred on a rock
The boys perch on rocks
Harry runs off
Fred's found more seaweed
A surf school sets up for the afternoon
The boys roam around on the beach
Fred digs up more seaweed
A stripey sea snail clings to a rock
A bit of seaweed looks like a fan
Harry runs around with a string of seaweed
Green-covered rocks
More seaweed
Fred in amongst the rockpools
There's some perfect shale geology going on
A dead crab in bits on the rocks
Some seaweed looks like some of of sea animal
The surf school heads out to sea
The car park of Streedagh Beach
Our beach encampment
Evelyn reads, whilst Do Wheeze has a fag on
Harry in the sand
Nicolas and Annalua have joined in
The Streedagh/Trá na Strithidí beach sign
The beach has filled up a bit
It's picnic time
Jilly and Noddy appear
Fred gets a massage
Wide open spaces
In the car park of Grange SuperValu
Isobel roams the aisles of SuperValu
A derelict building over the road from SuperValu
Isobel, Fern and Harry on the stairs
We head off into Sligo on Bóthar an Ghalltrumpa
Wandering through the campus of IT Sligo
Fred walks past a WB Yeats quote on The Mall
The gang on The Mall
Walking past derelict shops
Shuttered shops on Bridge Street
Isobel and Harry in Garavogue/Camile Thai
Across the river Garavogue
Bargain Shoes, across the river
Apint of Guinness has a smily face
Noddy has a beer moustache
Harry slurps on a fruit punch mocktail
The boys look out over the almost-overflowing river
Some insaniac is actually kayaking the river
Derelict-looking grey buildings
A Bram Stoker mural
A Yeats mural on The Snug pub
Wandering back up Stephen Street
A green-painted Edward VII post box
Harry runs across The Mall
The closed-down Sullivan's bar
Another closed-down bar: The Leitrim
A green wall post-box
The house where some dude plays loud music to plants
A former Mason's lodge in the arts-and-crafts style
The great 1960s-ness of Sligo Hospital
Fred swings a leg over a cone
The closed gates of IT Sligo
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The Winkies and Poolbeg at 5.30am
The Winkies and Poolbeg at 5.30am
The lighthouse of Dublin Port
The Odlums silos
Looking up the Liffey
Fred peers out over the docks
Fred points to oily water on the ferry's deck
The deck of the freight ferry
We wait in the bar area before disembarking
The few cars are squeezed in between trailers
The exit onto the M4 to Sligo
Isobel heads into Applegreen services on the M4
A derelict shop at Rathowen
A derelict house, which has lost its roof
The remains of a derelict bar
Another closed-down bar in Rathowen
The car outside the derelict shop
A cool old-school roadside petrol station
We stop off at SuperValu in Manorhamilton
Isobel gets some Ferrero Rocher
Isobel heads of with a basket of goodies
The SuperValu car park
Louise has a beer and a ciggie
Fred returns from a trip to the trampoline
Evelyn and Davida chat
Rachel, Fern and Fred return from the trampoline
There's a bicycle hanging up in Philly's shed
Harry swings around in the trees
Harry has a swing
Kitchen life
We find a cool beetle crawling around
Isobel takes a photo of the insect
A pair of boots hang up on an outside light
Philly's new fence
A few spiders join in with the beetle action
Isobel pours a glass of wine
Up at Philly's house
Fred waits in reception at Benbulben Court
A derelict building near Benbulben Court
Walking down The Mall/An Meal
The Garavogue river is running full and fast
The boys wait for pizza outside Rugantino
Harry and Isobel in Fiddlers Creek
Fiddler's Creek bar in Sligo
The first pint of Guinness
A closed-down newsagent on Grattan Street
We eat pizza in the apartment
Noddy comes over as Isobel plays fiddle
The Clayton Hotel in Sligo
The boys on Streedagh Beach
The empty lifeguard hut on Streedagh beach
Harry digs in the sand
The boys haul a massive lump of seaweed around
Fred on a rock
The boys perch on rocks
Harry runs off
Fred's found more seaweed
A surf school sets up for the afternoon
The boys roam around on the beach
Fred digs up more seaweed
A stripey sea snail clings to a rock
A bit of seaweed looks like a fan
Harry runs around with a string of seaweed
Green-covered rocks
More seaweed
Fred in amongst the rockpools
There's some perfect shale geology going on
A dead crab in bits on the rocks
Some seaweed looks like some of of sea animal
The surf school heads out to sea
The car park of Streedagh Beach
Our beach encampment
Evelyn reads, whilst Do Wheeze has a fag on
Harry in the sand
Nicolas and Annalua have joined in
The Streedagh/Trá na Strithidí beach sign
The beach has filled up a bit
It's picnic time
Jilly and Noddy appear
Fred gets a massage
Wide open spaces
In the car park of Grange SuperValu
Isobel roams the aisles of SuperValu
A derelict building over the road from SuperValu
Isobel, Fern and Harry on the stairs
We head off into Sligo on Bóthar an Ghalltrumpa
Wandering through the campus of IT Sligo
Fred walks past a WB Yeats quote on The Mall
The gang on The Mall
Walking past derelict shops
Shuttered shops on Bridge Street
Isobel and Harry in Garavogue/Camile Thai
Across the river Garavogue
Bargain Shoes, across the river
Apint of Guinness has a smily face
Noddy has a beer moustache
Harry slurps on a fruit punch mocktail
The boys look out over the almost-overflowing river
Some insaniac is actually kayaking the river
Derelict-looking grey buildings
A Bram Stoker mural
A Yeats mural on The Snug pub
Wandering back up Stephen Street
A green-painted Edward VII post box
Harry runs across The Mall
The closed-down Sullivan's bar
Another closed-down bar: The Leitrim
A green wall post-box
The house where some dude plays loud music to plants
A former Mason's lodge in the arts-and-crafts style
The great 1960s-ness of Sligo Hospital
Fred swings a leg over a cone
The closed gates of IT Sligo