Dear PopaGator your trip to Co Mayo/Roscommon will be all the merrier once you know that from there it is a short drive to Coleman country, the very heart of Irish Fiddling.

Matt Molloy (Chieftans), owns and runs a great little Pub out on the coast not too far from there as well... It is a place where you'd likely meet famous Irish Trad Recording Stars just hanging around holding up the roof which is about to fall in for the lack of Thatching!

They say that Clare tay is not too bad if you can already play the Concertina, however I would need more than that to be driving over there on the mere chance of hearing somebody - well anybody - play a few tunes. Be forewarned and make certain there IS a session/pubconcert before you leave.

For a great 'session' and time - esp in August - Galway City is hard to equal; now that I would recommend to you.

Norfolk UK is a little sleepy as I best recall, not much of anything and a whole bunch of nuttin- compares well to Hogwell Ark or Windless Holler Tenn, but if you can find the time to wander off to Birmingham or Manchester then you'd be dizzy with choices of things to do and places to go.

Think about Lakenheath this way, HMG (Her Britanic Majesty's Government) could not find a more inoffensive place to locate a horde of Yankee hooligans and their noisy toys, ie in the backwoods, out in the back, way way out there... lol. On the bright side there is a strong native Fiddling tradition in Norfolk, check out them Barges and 'Pointy Hat' poeple standing on street corners saying Elizabethan things such as 'Nonnnie nonnnie nou': also thinking on how one could usefully waste one's time at Suffolk, be sure not to miss the Newspaper clad 'Fish an Chips', eaten by hand from the paper and later washed down with a gallon of excellent English Ale, or if you must go 'native' use the local Scrumpy instead but do have a comfortable place to fall over when it's effect lays you down for the night.