Where da Guinness tastes like it should....

[smuggler]

We're planning a 10 day bike/camping trip to the Emerald Isle next year to discover where the best Guinness is located! Probably going to cross on the boat from Wales in mid-May, head for Cork, kiss the Blarney Stone en-route, head towards Bantry Bay, Valencia Island and on to Kerry.

If any of you guys and gals want to join us simply visit our Website/Forum at www.smugglers.org.uk and make yourself known. Although we're a Cruiser Club we don't care what you ride on this trip brother, two or three wheels max - the only qualification is that you can down a pint in 10 seconds flat and can ride like a demented lepricorn.

If you ain't been to Ireland before with a bunch of crazy cruisers ...nows your chance.

Physco Sid
:D

[Baloo]

Wouldn't advise downing a pint in ten seconds flat in Ireland - it takes 'em anything up to ten minutes to pour one and you won't 'alf get bored ... ;)

[Simon B]

Your right ther baloo, just go to a busy pub where there constantly poring and they will have a few on the go so you wont have to wait too long.
Mind you I reckon the old black stuff tastes the same whereever you drink it now as long as the barrel is open and drunk in a day.

[Wolfen]

Hoartys in Glean Cholm Kille, Co Donegal do a very nice pint and Biddys up the road from it are just as good.

Guinness should be savoured.

[Freak]

We found the best way to get Guinnes quickly was to split into groups of four. As one person gets a round back to the table the next person sets off and so forth.
Be warned, once we all had Guinness over there, it wasn't ever the same over here.

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[Gypsy]

yeah i worked it out that when you have drunk half ya pint... order the next one or you will be sitting with an empty glass for a while

[Rabid]

What is the price of a pint o guiness on the emerald isle ive heard it is even more expensive than over here.

[Mrs Reject]

Ahhh, the Emerald Isle. That particular route is great. Mitch kissed the Blarney stone but I refused because it meant hanging over a 100 foot drop and I have a height phobia *chicken* :eek: Must be why he hasn't stopped talking since! Then we went off to the Burren and the cliffs of Moher where there is a fantastic campsite (but a crap tourist pub that sells watered down guiness). That was the holiday where Mitch left the tent poles at home and we had to sleep in the spare food and gear storage tent for two weeks :) two weeks in a tent the size of a dog kennel!
I once climbed Croagh Patrick mountain in Mayo - but only did it because my ex-husband said I couldn't do it so naturally had to prove him wrong.
It's well worth it for the views if you don't mind the vertigo, sheer drop at the top and general wheezing and clutching of chests.
Have to say it sounds very very tempting and we do know that area of Ireland very well!!!! As long as it doesn't clash with Faro we might be persuaded!

[Baloo]

Tip if you get caught for speeding in Ireland - tell them that you're really sorry, but you're running for the ferry. It really works, honestly, even if you're going in the other direction ... ;)

[poridge wog]

i can recomend a place for a good cheap feed when you get of the ferry head up the n20 fer limerick and about fifteen mins out o cork theres a wee cafe with a corrugated tin roof on the right hand side o the road, be warned, wear something loose they realy know how to feed a man, the food just keeps on comin till you cant see the tyable, luverly grub, the roads are sh*t on a hardtail though :p :D

[Mitch]

Ahhh, the Emerald Isle. That particular route is great. Mitch kissed the Blarney stone but I refused because it meant hanging over a 100 foot drop and I have a height phobia *chicken* :eek: Must be why he hasn't stopped talking since! Then we went off to the Burren and the cliffs of Moher where there is a fantastic campsite (but a crap tourist pub that sells watered down guiness). That was the holiday where Mitch left the tent poles at home and we had to sleep in the spare food and gear storage tent for two weeks :) two weeks in a tent the size of a dog kennel!
I once climbed Croagh Patrick mountain in Mayo - but only did it because my ex-husband said I couldn't do it so naturally had to prove him wrong.
It's well worth it for the views if you don't mind the vertigo, sheer drop at the top and general wheezing and clutching of chests.
Have to say it sounds very very tempting and we do know that area of Ireland very well!!!! As long as it doesn't clash with Faro we might be persuaded!
I'm with the missus on this one! We can also recommend the Irish Arms pub in Lisdoonvarna - cracking pub and if you like fresh salmon there's a smokery round the corner!! :D

[Maggie B]

Cliffs of Moher-brilliant
that ride down or up to there along the coaast-beautiful

the burren-strange & very interesting-Hills like armadillos'

You will get lost-enjoy-the metal signposts are badly made & in a high wind the pointers move around the post.

Dingle peninsula-fantastic-up over connor pass-stop & look at the view

Ring of Kerry is more commercialised, but very pretty too


Roads are MURDER on your back-take Ibruprofen !

Get laid back as soon as you arrive, otherwise the people will annoy you

Places I wasn't that impressed by

Wicklow Hills

Bloody waterford glass center tour

Dublin (stag & hen location for the UK)

[Pennywise]

why are you going to ireland to get guinness?...every one knows the best guinness on the plant is brewed in Jamacia

[Mrs Reject]

Bloody waterford glass center tour


Oh God yes, you wouldn't think such a place could make such tasteless crap would you? Centuries of artisans making beautiful glass objects and then todays waterford crystal the glass equivalent of doilies and crochet toilet roll holders. Bleeeuuugghhhhh!!!!!!:eek:

[Huw Beer Monster]

every one knows the best [...]plant is brewed in Jamacia

I think you mean smoked ;)

[Mitch]

Don't forget, if you want to take the p1ss out of those 'feckin' Nons' (as Father Jack called them), there's always Knock!!!

What a way to make money out of the potato famine, eh?

[Bosun]

waterford crystal the glass equivalent toilet roll holders.


oooh do you think they do mail order ... alll excited now