Currently listening to: "Trouble" Ray LaMontagneLast Saturday Joanne, Shiny, Raj and I wen't on a "lets get lost in Ireland" adventure, which ended up in Westport. As the name may suggest, its a port on the West of Ireland.
We were having this day out to jointly celebrate Sarah's 18th birthday and also spend some time with her before she headed off to OZ.
The day was a wild amount of fun and frolicking, we did get extensively lost in Co.Sligo thanks to Microsoft "so called" route finder, (if that is your real name), but we stopped and asked directions off and englishman, who was only too pleased and amused at being able to direct us back to the right path.
He didn't however give us good directions, so we headed for sligo and then on down the N4/N5 to the port.
Here is a map of the journey, as is should have been:
I got overly excited to find canadian coffee store Tim Horton's had appeared in a Shell/Spar filling station on the main road to Westport.The thing is that Canadian coffee is not that strong, and can be a little bland, but that isn't the point, it has attached memories of going to Canada with Dave Allen and Elia Montgomery.. . . also they do great pastries / donuts / timbits.
Aparently Tim horton's are planning to populate Irish Shell/Spar filling stations with branches, and there is a proper fully functioning coffee shop already open at Dublin Zoo.
The Canadians are on the attack. Bring it on.
Also, when we got to Westport we went into a pub and watched the England world cup dreams being dashed. There was no finer place to do that than an Irish Pub!
5 comments:
The invasions are a success! Muahahahahaha. First Afghanistan, now Ireland...next Iceland!!
All bow before the mighty Double-Double.
You ol' French Vanilla you!
I found your blog from a quick google to find out just how many Timmy's there are in Ireland, because I was so INCREDIBLY surprised to find a Tim Horton's in Westport. If we are invading, it's a shame we are doing it with shitty donuts and weak coffee... but it did make me feel a little more at home.
My Northern Irish husband and I (Canadian) would love a Tim's invasion up here in the north! The coffee's great, not weak and the donuts are wonderful if that's what you like too. We just love the coffee and atmosphere and the convenience of Tim's when we go home. If only to be able to drive a few blocks to get a cup (double milk only) up here! OHHHH what a dream!!!!!
Could not believe the number of Timmy's my wife and I managed to stumble upon during our recent honeymoon in Ireland. We found them in numerous Spar convenience stores in Dublin, Belfast and Galway!
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