.. ran rife in Ireland overnight if our experience is anything to go by.
Yesterday we passed a laundromat and enquired if they provided a quick dry cleaning service for travellers, was assured they did and was quoted a price for 5kg by weight that being the minimum.
Confirmed we would be back in the morning to drop our kit off with pickup in the afternoon. Before dropping the washing off we weighed it on our travelling scales and found it was approximately 3.5kg so with thar knowledge we handed it over, she weighed it and proceeded to charge us 14% more than quoted yesterday - no point in arguing as we need our kit cleaned but you do have to chuckle.
The morning, which was on the cold side of warm, was spent following a walking trail around some of the streets of Sligo however we didn’t find anything spectacular though did have an exchange with a passing motorist in the vicinity of the old Sligo gaol. He stopped his car and told us to go on inside as it was worthwhile to which I responded “if we go in there you might not let us out” - he chuckled and drove off.
Whenever we are walking at home we always try to make contact with others walking the street - usually it’s just a hello - and we might get a response in return 30% of the time however over here the locals tend to be the ones that initiate the contact before we have had the chance to do so - it’s very refreshing.
Also if you are standing on the footpath looking like you are waiting for a break in the traffic to cross invariably a car will stop and wave you across.
After lunch we drove out to Rosses Point, the peninsula visible from our front door.
It is part of the Wild Atlantic Way and is another delightful location that we have been lucky enough to visit particularly now that the day had warmed up with the arrival of the sun to counter a stiffish breeze.
In the Bay are two islands Oyster and Coney - fun fact, an Irishman named the island of the same name in New York because it was plentiful with rabbits just like the island in Sligo Bay.
At the end of the peninsula is the County Sligo Golf Course, a true windswept but well manicured 71 par links course where Harrington, McIlroy and Lowry won events in their amateur days. Also Tom Watson declared the par 4 14th to be one of his favourite holes.
I watched a foursome tee off the 1st and with out of bounds being on the right of a reasonably wide fairway and the wind blowing left to right 3 of them went left of the left bunker on the edge of the fairway into the “heather” the wind not playing its part while the 4th golfer hit his down the middle but by the time it had stopped moving in the wind and rolling over the undulating fairway he played his second from just inside the out of bounds marker! Visually it looked a brute of a course on days when there is wind off the Bay.
Another enjoyable day in the European Ireland
Driving into Galway the other day a street sign highlighted that there you are liable for a €1900 fine if caught littering ($NZD3800)
And seen in Claremorris a €150 fine for dropping gum
Photos from today
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