Guidebook for Galway

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Guidebook for Galway

Food Scene

Home style cooking, decent helpings, local produce and fish, and above all, a really traditional Irish pub...with music on Saturday nights.
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Donnelly's of Barna Bar & Seafood Restaurant
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Home style cooking, decent helpings, local produce and fish, and above all, a really traditional Irish pub...with music on Saturday nights.

Drinks & Nightlife

Simply put, this is the best bar in Ireland...music nightly from 9pm, huge open fireplace, cozy, no TV, no Gaming machines, just conviviality, conversation and oh, did I mention the 1,000+ antiques and bric-a-brac... in Salthill village, just 3 miles from cottage. Taxi for four 15 euro.
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O'Connors Pub
Upper Salthill Road
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Simply put, this is the best bar in Ireland...music nightly from 9pm, huge open fireplace, cozy, no TV, no Gaming machines, just conviviality, conversation and oh, did I mention the 1,000+ antiques and bric-a-brac... in Salthill village, just 3 miles from cottage. Taxi for four 15 euro.
The award winning Twelve Hotel has a great reputation for food, drink...and ambience and music...oh...and a great pizza parlour and free wifi... and the Aran Ferry bus picks up there.
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The Twelve Hotel Galway
Barna Road
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The award winning Twelve Hotel has a great reputation for food, drink...and ambience and music...oh...and a great pizza parlour and free wifi... and the Aran Ferry bus picks up there.

Sightseeing

Salthill village has everything you need on a vacation from seaside, beach, indoor pools, hotels, restaurants, shops, bars and a three mile long beach-front promenade or boardwalk. Only three miles from the cottage... and 1 mile from Galway city centre and historic sites.
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Salthill
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Salthill village has everything you need on a vacation from seaside, beach, indoor pools, hotels, restaurants, shops, bars and a three mile long beach-front promenade or boardwalk. Only three miles from the cottage... and 1 mile from Galway city centre and historic sites.
The ancient celts still live on the Aran Islands, speaking Irish, and drinking pints with the locals...an easy and fascinating day-trip from the cottage. UNIQUE...a must-see bucket-list stop! nuff said.
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Aran Islands
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The ancient celts still live on the Aran Islands, speaking Irish, and drinking pints with the locals...an easy and fascinating day-trip from the cottage. UNIQUE...a must-see bucket-list stop! nuff said.
Tallest cliffs in Europe...in the most unusual landscape in Europe, The Burren hills, with the best beaches, most interesting neolithic sites, and music in every pub...oh, did I mention the wild dolphin at Doolin...and the Loop Head walk...
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Cliffs of Moher
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Tallest cliffs in Europe...in the most unusual landscape in Europe, The Burren hills, with the best beaches, most interesting neolithic sites, and music in every pub...oh, did I mention the wild dolphin at Doolin...and the Loop Head walk...

Parks & Nature

Connemara is a one hour drive from the cottage...its an area with twelve mountain peaks, two dozen beaches, countless lakes and the most beautiful scenery and vistas in Ireland (biased view).
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Connemara National Park
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Connemara is a one hour drive from the cottage...its an area with twelve mountain peaks, two dozen beaches, countless lakes and the most beautiful scenery and vistas in Ireland (biased view).

Arts & Culture

This is the heart of medieval Galway city...with the harbour, churches, narrow streets (Latin Quarter) bars, restaurants, coffee shops, craft shops, and the city Museum.
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I-Spanish Arch
2 The Long Walk
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This is the heart of medieval Galway city...with the harbour, churches, narrow streets (Latin Quarter) bars, restaurants, coffee shops, craft shops, and the city Museum.

Shopping

a third-generation family-owned Irish craft and gift shop and coffee shop, on the seafront in Spiddal village, and beside the Ceardlainn, a local craft co-op with 12 stores. Great for shopping...and dreaming
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Standun
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a third-generation family-owned Irish craft and gift shop and coffee shop, on the seafront in Spiddal village, and beside the Ceardlainn, a local craft co-op with 12 stores. Great for shopping...and dreaming
Only 3 kms (1.8 miles) from the cottage, Barna village has a hotel, and four restaurants and a Supervalu supermarket, as well as bakery, pharmacy and a fish shop.
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Barna
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Only 3 kms (1.8 miles) from the cottage, Barna village has a hotel, and four restaurants and a Supervalu supermarket, as well as bakery, pharmacy and a fish shop.