Late again; you'd think we were lazy American tourists or something. Actually, we are, but we also ran into such a weak signal at our apartment that we had to come out to an internet cafe to finish up this blog.
The weather finally cleared and we made to downtown Galway City---Erye Square---for a little shopping and walk about. Here are the 14 flags of the 14 Merchant Tribes that have been based in Galway for hundreds of years.
That's "The Fountain" sculpture that they put up a few years back to celebrate their 500th anniversary as a community. I guess this is one of the areas Christopher Columbus "checked out" in his early exploration days. And Eyre Square is also formally known as the "John F. Kennedy Memorial Park," so named shortly after his death.
Just off Eyre Square is Lynch's Castle. We supposedly get the term "lynching" because Lord Mayor Lynch hanged his own son for high crimes after no one else dared hang him. The building is used as a bank now.
We had a great "pub grub" type meal at the Galway Baking Company...
The usual entree of meat---turkey and ham this time---along with gravy, potatoes, a vegetable, and a mash of carrots and turnips. Shredded, cooked cabbage is often served as well, but you would barely recognize it since it's so much lighter over here than our cabbage.
There were plenty of people out and about even though it was a week day. Lots of little shops on narrow little pedestrian streets and alleyways.
They keep things very tidy too. Here's Kenny's Art Gallery; the same fellow that has the large book store with the building that has all the hanging baskets.
We saw a few "buskers" as well and they all played well.
We're running late, so we'll tell you about "The Nuns" soon...
[And we must be getting cheap and jaded because we only bought a few small things---not helping the Irish economy much at all.]
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