Hey everyone I know you all miss my sweet sweet blogs and lack of punctuation so here is another installment involving absolute random thoughts on Ireland, the super bowl and hot sauce.
So where to begin after spending roughly 3 weeks in Ireland I have come to realize that the service is not going to get any better no matter where you eat here. When you step foot in a restaurant you in their house now, and nobody will put baby in the corner! If you want a Guinness, a water, or a steak it will take the same amount of time to get what you ordered. So that kind of sucks but whatever it happens and we obviously don't have anywhere to be. Also a pleasant surprise on most menu's so far as been that chicken wings are on the menu and are there to stay, you see a lot of people ordering them and they are cooked to near perfection. An unpleasant surprise however is the said chicken wings lack of spice or "heat" if you will. The menu might read "Super hot flaming surface of the sun wings" which loosely can be translated as "mild". On a side note i did have dinner in a real castle this week and it was pretty bad ass I felt like I should have been slugging beer from a goblet while sharing tales of pillaging other castles....I guess a Guinness and a steak works. Annie I thought you might like you to know that this place had an award for best hotel interior design in all of Europe in 2009.
Now on to a recent obsession that Matt and I share....Gypsies, or Travelers. If you are not familiar with these people they are like the rednecks of Europe but these people have no permanent homes, thus the travelers tag, they pay no taxes and just move around from campsite to campsite. If you have ever seen the movie "snatch" they give a brilliant and absolutely perfect picture of a gypsy campsite/lifestyle. But the one crazy twist is that they are loaded with cash. To relay some information we have gathered they like to get wasted and tear shit up. There is apparently a place in town that will let them drink at their bar...with a few stipulations: 1) only gypsies are allowed to be there when they are there 2) they have to pay a deposit before they are allowed to drink, a deposit of 20,000 euro! This 20,000 euro is for the damages that the bar will incur as they drink and tear shit up, fair enough. If you like "My Big fat redneck wedding" then you would love "big fat gypsy weddings" same thing really but just a little crazier when you don't have a permanent home.
As far as the super bowl goes I can't tell you how lucky I am to be in Ireland the last two weeks before the super bowl I don't have to hear about them analyzing absolutely everything from the offensive line to the food line. Its usually enough to make me not want to watch the game by the time it comes around.
Also for the record the new Cold War Kids album is amazing, thanks Aaron for allowing me to get my paws on it, this will definitely make the rest of the trip more enjoyable. Well goodnight everybody I cant wait to see everyone soon!
Editors note: The Busty Statue is Molly Malone (refer to previous blogs for description)
Love, Your Gypsy Guru
Adam
I love gypsies and interior design and hot sauce and shoes (while I'm on the subject). We used to talk about gypsies all the time while I was in Italy. Scott, one of my classmates, used to called in a gypsy all the time, I'm not sure why? Maybe that is why I like them so much.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I learned yesterday that hot sauce, or "heat" as you so eloquently referred to it as, is also a great way to ward off ants, in particular those giant black ones.
What was the name of the hotel? Was it the Clontarf Castle Hotel?
And just to wrap things up, I'm glad I wore my rainboots to work today because it was a wet one. And, we had an early release from work for snow (at which point it had not even started snowing yet)- gotta love these city folk and their inability to function in any type of precipitation.
(OK- did I cover it all? Interior design, hot sauce, gypsies, shoes). And those things I just used are called commas. You should try them sometime.
Glad your having fun buddy, be glad you 2 arn't in town. You missed an absolute shit storm of snow. Like 3 or 4 inches in 3 hours mid-day Wednesday. People getting mandated left and right at Ruby.
ReplyDeletePikeys really exist huh? What about the caravans?
Sorry you won't be here to see the Steelers win their 7th Superbowl.
Do they do carbombs over there?
Be safe
Tedd Jess and Ava
Annie, yes it was the Clontarf Castle Hotel and i like all of my sentences to run together and pausing is for the weak haha.
ReplyDeleteTedd, I'll be back for the super bowl and if you loose to the green bay packers i will laugh because the NFC is a joke. As for the caravans hells yeah they have them is there any other way to travel? I would guess a campsite is very similar to Jamboree in the Hills. Haven't done a car bomb yet but i think they call them Belfast bombers (side note there was a bombing in Belfast since we've been here) ill do more research.