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Non-Airline Mogul => General Chat => Topic started by: AirHanoverInternational on January 06, 2008, 02:57:55 pm
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DUB-SXL, but not so much SXL-DUB. Aer Arann ATR42 route, about 30mins door to door. Generally followed by me taking a C172/C152 out for a flight. :D
Just took a look at the SXL airport homepage. Is this the area where you live? Looks really nice. Have not been in Ireland so far - but have in mind as a destination for vacation since years. :roll:
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Just took a look at the SXL airport homepage. Is this the area where you live? Looks really nice. Have not been in Ireland so far - but have in mind as a destination for vacation since years. :roll:
Yeah, I live about an hour from Sligo. Its a great area, still traditional in a large sense and plenty of green around. :wink: I'd recommend the West Coast for any holidays, the South and South West is very Tourism orientated especially for the US Tourist market. If you go further north to the West (We have 3 West regions as such) to Galway and my home Mayo you get still touristy but authentic too. Finally the North West (Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal) are more "wild" and are definitely worth a look.
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You have to be mad to go on holiday to Ireland :D
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You have to be mad to go on holiday to Ireland :D
You have to be mad to get on a Ryanair flight to Dublin and just walk around all day. :P
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Just took a look at the SXL airport homepage. Is this the area where you live? Looks really nice. Have not been in Ireland so far - but have in mind as a destination for vacation since years. :roll:
Yeah, I live about an hour from Sligo. Its a great area, still traditional in a large sense and plenty of green around. :wink: I'd recommend the West Coast for any holidays, the South and South West is very Tourism orientated especially for the US Tourist market. If you go further north to the West (We have 3 West regions as such) to Galway and my home Mayo you get still touristy but authentic too. Finally the North West (Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal) are more "wild" and are definitely worth a look.
Just took a look around the web for Sligo. Wikipedia states about 17,000 citizens and 150 pubs. The closest city to my house has about 100,000 inhabitants but probably just about the same amount of pubs/restaurants. One of them is the "Wild Geese" (or something similiar) I visited regular in the 90's (before I was married :wink: ). Every weekend they invited irish musicians and paid for their flights/hotels. It was really a nice atmosphere. One time I was there I stayed until the pub closed (the owner was a friend of mine) and I had a nice conversation with the artists. Unfortunatly I had so much beer I could not remember city they came from :roll: But I DO remember they have had a lot of beer, too :lol:
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Haha, my local town has a population of 10,000 and over 100 licenced premises. That's nearly 1 pub per 100 people!
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Haha, my local town has a population of 10,000 and over 100 licenced premises. That's nearly 1 pub per 100 people!
You should have created a game where it was the goal to serve the most beer :lol: (In case you start to programme such a game: All rights on this idea reserved :wink: ) The richest people in Ireland must be owners of breweries :D
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Haha, my local town has a population of 10,000 and over 100 licenced premises. That's nearly 1 pub per 100 people!
You should have created a game where it was the goal to serve the most beer :lol: (In case you start to programme such a game: All rights on this idea reserved :wink: ) The richest people in Ireland must be owners of breweries :D
I'd be the Guinness family :D
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Haha, my local town has a population of 10,000 and over 100 licenced premises. That's nearly 1 pub per 100 people!
You should have created a game where it was the goal to serve the most beer :lol: (In case you start to programme such a game: All rights on this idea reserved :wink: ) The richest people in Ireland must be owners of breweries :D
I'd be the Guinness family :D
That'd be pretty awsome- although I'd prefer to be a member of the Smirnoff family :twisted:
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Topic split on account of going off-topic.
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does Ireland have many local breweries or do you all drink Guinness?
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Beer has gone a lot down the list. Its mainly older people that drink Guiness, anyway its part of Diageo now so its no longer Irish owned. Its all spirits really here at this stage for the younger market. Guiness is popular with older people, in rural pubs and tourists!
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What kind of beer is still Irish and can be bought outside Ireland? I thought Kilkenny but it is also produced by Diageo - as per wikipedia. Do you have any german beer over there?
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ah ok, so the germans are the last ones in Europe to keep beer popular?
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There are really none left. Non Irish owned anyway. Larger/Stout there are other brands. Unfortunately I dont drink German beer so I cant tell you. :lol:
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What kind of beer is still Irish and can be bought outside Ireland? I thought Kilkenny but it is also produced by Diageo - as per wikipedia. Do you have any german beer over there?
I'm pretty sure Guinness is available W/W and Heineken, although i think its part Irish part Dutch...
(Oh, I am not old enough to drink, so, em, I'm not an expect of Irish alcohol...)
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@ blue
Yes, we do and are always in the high rankings of annual consumption per person.
@ Stephen
Thats sad. Many german breweries are still under german control although they are not independent anymore but belong to big companies.
@ killian
Heineken is Dutch.
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@ blue
Yes, we do and are always in the high rankings of annual consumption per person.
@ Stephen
Thats sad. Many german breweries are still under german control although they are not independent anymore but belong to big companies.
@ killian
Heineken is Dutch.
I didn't mean you with that comment. I know that Germans drink a lot of beer (120l. per year, wasn't it?)
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Ah wait, i meant Harp Lager :D
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I didn't mean you with that comment. I know that Germans drink a lot of beer (120l. per year, wasn't it?)
Yeah, should be pretty close. In my Navy times I was definetly above that value - perhaps 365l (for americans: about 100 gallons; 3 times the size of a GMC H2 fuel tank) or more :D But now its probably less than 25l (again for americans :wink: : less than 7 gallons). Did I mention somewhere I am glad I left the Navy? :roll:
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i spent 2 years in ireland (cork) and it was brill, id love to go bk. :lol: i did do my leaving-cert there, and i have to say irish schools are just so relaxed.
you can get german beer in off-lcences (warsteiner, bavaria, altho the latter one is actually dutch). ireland is actually no one in beer consumptin worlwide (source: national geographic) followed by czech and the germs on number 3. according to ng the irish drink 127l/year/person, which is rather a lot, as many people dont drink at all, come to think of it. but anyway, ireland is still the best country in the world, and im going back there at easter. :D