hello, blue door people, hello!

Roughly a third of all visitors who stumble through this blog thanks to a google search, were searching for "blue door adare ireland" and found this post. Fascinating, isn't it? People from all over the globe are looking it up! I had never heard of this tiny restaurant before I tripped over the doorjamb. And here you all are, annoyed that my blog is misleading and not at all helpful in your quest to learn more about the Blue Door Restaurant in Adare, county Limerick. Apart from learning that they WILL serve you drinks if you, you know.... ask for them.

McTourism

Ladies & Gents, please forgive me, but I am 'plenty' proud of my neologism, McTourism. Now let me explain...

Although we had a lovely time, I can't help feeling like we did the Mcdonald's tour of Ireland... i.e. the Drive-Thru. 17 villages, 4 towns and 2 cities in 3 days, with a coffee, lunch or dinner thrown in here and there.

"you can tick another village off the list"
"cool - what's next?"
"kilsomeoneorother - shall we stop?"
"naaaah! We can see it from the car!"
"yip... tick another town off the list. Wow - Ireland is fantastic! You see so much in such a short space of time and for an authentic experience, you only need to roll down your window and kiss a gob-covered rock backwards."

However, some(travel) is still better than none(travel). It still broadens the mind a wee bit and it certainly whets your appetite to return and spend more time in a place. I do intend to go hiking in Ireland...someday. Time permitting. When I've ticked Japan and India off my Mclist.

PS My keyboard is doing that horrendous thing where everytime you want to place the cursor somewhere in the text, it puts itself 11 characters to the RIGHT of where you wanted it to go! I CANNOT remember how to make that nasty, useless, ridiculous function Go Away... and I don't think I can use the arrow keys much longer - the left arrow is about to wear off! grgrggrgr

Anyway, where was I?
Ah, yes, well... here's a spot of news about the Hollywood Reporter. I am no longer in Hollywood because I have an acting job in Vienna, Austria. So, Hollywood is a very clean, pristine, ordely place in central Europe for the time being. Thank you for your understanding.

t's no bother

I have noticed this thing bloggers do a lot and so I will do it too in this post. I am going to make a LIST - so bear with me as I try to achieve some blogging-cool. Here is my take on Ireland, in list-form:

1."ah, t's noh bother" is a very popular phrase in Ireland
- the Irish don't want to appear bothered, especially not by the crowds of rowdy English stag-night and hen-party celebrators drunkenly falling over themselves in Galway.

2. they do not talk about Leprechauns as much as one imagines.
- actually, not a single one was mentioned.

3. A lot of towns are called Kil - someone or other
- Killinaboy (goodness!), Kilfenora (poor Fenora, what's she ever done to anyone?), Kilmore (and they say South Africans have a violent mentality??)

4. to properly distinguish themselves from the English, they use kilometers, liters and € instead of miles, gallons and £
- does it work? Hmmmm...

5. they use 'like' a lot, but NOT in the way Valley-girls in the USA use it
- "the fish was big-like" " I'm goin' out for a drink-like"

6. "Have you a Biro?"
- Translation: do you have a pen?

7. there is no 7th point in my list, so pls skip straight to point 8

8. if you want to hear an irish accent, don't go to a hotel or restaurant cos the staff will more than likely be Polish
- they recruited Eastern Europeans in the tourism industry in the 90's when there just weren't enough Irish to cope with the Celtic Tiger

9. END of list - do you think I'm cool now?

Eire

Di oirish are a luvely peepil! Although, in almost a week, not one person has said "t-hop of the day to ya". But, I did see a Leprechaun out of the corner of my eye and kiss the Blarney Stone...

Yip, I'm in Ireland for a wedding and Easter holiday, like.