Re some previous posts, anybody who hasnt read McCarthy's Bar should rop everything they are doing and read it right now. The best travel book ever. We bought six copies to give to friends,(we're Anglo-Welsh) and then met an Irish friend who had bought a dozen copies for the same purpose. It's that good! And interesting that it is so acceptable to an English and irish audience. Ihad a particular interest in that I know West Cork very well, and a lot of the book is about the area, but I think the humour is pretty universal...and his comments are very perceptive :"what oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed" could have been written about McCarthy's witticisms..