Leah & Julian in The World

Dingle

Ireland has started to redeem itself! We made the long trip over to the west coast and settled for the night in Dingle (technically it’s called An Daingean (on DANG-un), but don’t say that to the locals! They are very irate that the powers-that-be unilaterally changed the official town name to its Gaelic version).

We spent the night in the backyard of a lovely hostel on the outskirts of town – Rainbow Hostel if you’re ever in the area. After a shower and some food, we made our way into Dingle proper to explore the nightlife and hopefully catch some live Irish music.

After a delicious sticky toffee pudding (bread and butter pudding for Julian) at Murphy’s pub, we headed down the road to John Benny Moriarty’s where we had a Murphy’s stout and a Bulmer’s cider and enjoyed tapping our toes to the “trad” Irish music.

Irish trad

Paddington had a bit too much to drink, and attempted to make the trio a quartet, but he doesn’t have the legs to hold his Guinness I’m afraid.

Can't handle his Guinness!

Overall it was a very enjoyable night, although we still didn’t meet any Irish folk – the pub was full of Americans! I do want to make on small comment though. Foxy John’s is a hardware store by day, but at night it becomes a pub. Maybe it’s just me, but I question the sense in combining drinking with hardware and tools…seems like a recipe for disaster to me! But I guess we are in Ireland!

Hardware by day, pub by night!