Galway and surrounds

We pick up our rental car and head off towards the Wild Atlantic way or more particular the cliffs of Moher. We stopped for lunch at a creamery thinking it would serve a scone and cup of tea but alas just pub food.  Ate some average soup and moved along.  Got to the cliffs and it was freezing.

There were 15 buses lined up and  car park full of cars.  I would hate to see it in tourist season.  It was nice but you can never beat the west coast of New Zealand for “spectacular” and did I mention that it was freezing.

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Cliffs of Moher
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Other side of the cliffs

Moving along we followed the coast road and unfortunately lost the light as we headed to Galway.  There were pretty houses and villages.  Bobbing boats and rolling hills.

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We arrive in Galway amongst heavy traffic because the Christmas fair is on. Our accommodation is in Salthill which is just down the road.  After settling into our apartment we grabbed a cab and went into the city for dinner.  Christmas lights are very much a big deal here and they were everywhere.

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Galway Christmas lights

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Today we enjoyed a morning in and a catch up with the washing, which as you blog readers will know by now for me is always exciting.  After walking the promenade we grabbed a bus and went back to Galway to see it in the daylight. OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

It’s not as colourful as I imagined and as the sun had disappeared so much of it was very gray.  We walked and wandered and ambled along doing nothing in particular.  There were no amazing sights hiding around corners and so we just wandered back to Salthill and read a book.

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Tips for rental car

We try and pick up rentals from the airport even if we don’t have a flight as they (usually) have good in and out transport links.  Or take public transport to a smaller town and then pick up your car.

in Dublin we should have done a loop back to Dublin as the one way hire was way more than the car, but I had already booked our airfares out of Belfast and they weren’t Flexi so was easier to leave as is.  Also in Ireland the insurance is €50 a day, which is exorbitant or else they take €1500 of your credit card and hold it until you return the car.  You are liable for everything they tell you.  The poor young guy next to us in the queue didn’t have 1500 euros to leave them and the insurance was going to be way more than the car hire.  He told them that this was not on there website and he should have been told.  He is right.   Shop around.

check car carefully especially as they have 1500 of your money.  We found a ding and multiple scratches and scrapes which we photoed.

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