Fun day exploring Galway city! We woke up this morning to some sunshine ☀️
Walked into town and had coffee and a bite to eat.
📍 Quay Street - had lots of fun checking out all the little shops, galleries and cafes (including one Aussie cafe we found!)
📍 Walked to the Spanish Arch - built in the 1500’s and part of the old medieval town of Galway
📍 Galway Museum - not bad
📍 Galway Cathedral - amazing architecture
📍 Walk down the canal 🦆
📍 Lunch @ a funky pub in Eyre Square called Tigh Neachtain. It was in our Lonely Planet book as one of the best pubs in Galway. Super cute timber interior with little nooks and fireplaces everywhere.
📍 Murphy’s ice cream 🍦 We had to try this while we were here as it was on our favourite show ‘Somebody Feed Phil’. We shared the chocolate whiskey and sea salt flavours, wowee delicious.
We went home for a few hours to relax and did some trip admin/planning.
Sun was out again in the arvo so we headed to Salt Hill Promenade for a big walk along the water. This area reminded me a bit of St Kilda in Melbourne. The sea was so clear and so many people swimming 🥶
Afterwards we drove 30 mins out of town to watch a Hurling match which is an Irish sport, seemed like a mixture of hockey and AFL minus the tackling. They use these paddles that look like long table tennis bats to hit the ball all around the field. Jacques has been talking about seeing this sport every day since we’ve been here 😂 I surprised myself and actually enjoyed it too
Back to Galway for our last dinner here, we headed to a pub down the road the called McGinn’s Hop House, shared a pizza and some drinks 🍺 🍕 Afterwards, we walked into town to check out the atmosphere on a Friday night. It was going off! Sooo many loud, packed pubs and people drunk everywhere 🤣 could literally still here it going all night from our bedroom! Needed some earplugs lol
Early morning tomorrow as we head to Dublin via Kilkenny (last minute plan after so many people recommending it)Read more