{"id":372,"date":"2022-10-08T20:39:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T20:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/si2022\/?p=372"},"modified":"2023-08-20T00:07:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T00:07:54","slug":"to-ennistimon-the-final-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/si2022\/2022\/10\/08\/to-ennistimon-the-final-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"To Ennistimon, the Final Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tomorrow is a big day, visiting Aram island (we all opted in at \u20ac115 a head), and the home visit with a local family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Galway, Eyre (Shopping) Centre was built around part of the old wall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In Eyre Square, a statue of Paddy O’Conaire. The head was stolen, then recovered. Now the head is kept in a secure location, and a replica sits on the statue.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I only saw a few people who seemed to be soliciting donations who were not buskers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Our walking guide Rory O’Shaughnassey (not sure of spelling, but he said o-SHACK-nessy) told us that there are quite a few suicides among young men in the area, and that there is a 24-hour watch on the bridge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ribbons in memoriam.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I walked around on my own during the 2-hour free time, visiting charity shops. I stopped for a falafel at this popup at the Saturday street market.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Solid lunch for \u20ac8.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In the afternoon, we had a comfort stop at a chocolate factory. Next door was this building with a sod roof.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Falls Hotel is weird. The lock is way up, and the doorknob is in the middle of the door on the outside. There is NO doorknob on the inside.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The lock for the bathroom is up high, and says ENGAGED or VACANT, like a public toilet. Possibly the hotel used recycled hardware for lower environmental footprint.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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There is no doorknob inside the bathroom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A tall person must have designed this room.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The walk along the river to the falls is the longer but more scenic way to town.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The river is quite foamy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In town, we visited SuperValu. Notice the varieties of potatoes on the bag.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Although we got salads at SuperValu, we stopped for some burgers at Currans on the way back. The quarter-pounder was \u20ac5.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Salad back in the room. We still had dressing left over from previous days.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Merrianne went swimming in the pool downstairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow is a big day, visiting Aram island (we all opted in at \u20ac115 a head), and the home visit with a local family. Merrianne went swimming in the pool downstairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/si2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/si2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/si2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/si2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/si2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/si2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/si2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/si2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/si2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}