Hello From Margaret V in Galway

Subject: Hello From Margaret V in Galway
From: GUEST,Margaret V
Date: 02 Nov 00 - 10:00 AM

Hello, friends, I just wanted to check in and say hello from Ireland where I have been since Saturday. I'm enjoying myself thoroughly despite buckets of rain. I've heard fantastic music in Tralee and Galway (where I expect to hear more again tonight), and have seen stunningly beautiful coasts and an almost endless variety of colors of the sea. People are kind, the oysters are delicious, and the beverages aren't half-bad either... I'm off to Donegal tomorrow morning and over to Dublin on Sunday and Monday, and, provided all goes well with the weather and Aer Lingus, I'll be back to the U.S. on Tuesday. Thanks to Alison and other folks who gave me advice! So long, Margaret

Subject: RE: Hello From Margaret V in Galway
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Nov 00 - 10:11 AM

Oh, Margaret, I am about as green with envy as it must be there! Sounds just wonderful. Thanks for letting us know and tell us more as you can, please. Planning on meeting any Mudcatters while there?

I have an idea for all of you who get around. We should have a Travelogue HearMe, where you get on and tell us all about your adventures, maybe even with sound effects and/or samples of the songs etc. you heard!

Fare well, fare safely,

kat

Subject: RE: Hello From Margaret V in Galway
From: Kim C
Date: 02 Nov 00 - 10:14 AM

I am SO jealous! Hope you are having a MARVELOUS time!!!! :)

Subject: RE: Hello From Margaret V in Galway
From: Robo
Date: 02 Nov 00 - 12:09 PM

Aye, Margaret, enjoy! Hello to the folks at Taffe's if you get the chance!

Rob-o

Subject: RE: Hello From Margaret V in Galway
From: Naemanson
Date: 02 Nov 00 - 12:15 PM

Sounds like you are having a great time. I too am green and (to be fair and equitable) orange with envy.

Hey Kat, I like the idea of a travelogue site but it should be a proper web site with photographs and sound clips from the pubs and the sites.

And, to really be properly done, once you log into the site your computer should lock up so you cannot get out until the slide show is over! Even the on-off buttons should quit working!

"And here we are (please stop moaning so loud) on the banks of the Lea River...."

Subject: RE: Hello From Margaret V in Galway
From: mike putt
Date: 02 Nov 00 - 12:44 PM

And hi from Mike in Limerick, a travelogue would be a terrific idea and although I live in Limerick I love the west coast at this time of year, the Atlantic is so wild and beautiful

Subject: RE: Hello From Margaret V in Galway
From: Matt_R
Date: 02 Nov 00 - 12:46 PM

I stood by your Atlantic sea
And sang a song for Ireland...

Subject: RE: Hello From Margaret V in Galway
From: Diva
Date: 02 Nov 00 - 12:55 PM

Sounds like you're having a great time,lucky you. Enjoy Donegal,I have a recurring dream about the Inishowen area on the wee road up to Mallinhead. You'll have a ball in Dublin,I always do but that could have a lot to do with the company LOL

Subject: RE: Hello From Margaret V in Galway
From: GUEST,Margaret V
Date: 03 Nov 00 - 01:49 PM

Good to hear from you all! Yes, it's very, very green, and my scarf smells a lot like a wet sheep just now because, well, it IS a wet sheep, isn't it? I'm in Donegal town now. Kim C. I thought you were going to be in Ireland around Thanksgiving, no? Rob-o, I was just in Taafe's last night, had a few pints waiting for the music to show, but they never did so I went across the street to a place that's only been open a month now, where there was some brilliant accordion and fiddle playing going on. Galway seems to know how to have fun; sorry to be too early to see Roy Harper at Roisin Dubh next week... and Mike, hello to you in Limerick, yes the Atlantic is gorgeous. In Lahinch the waves must have been 15 feet high, it was crazy! But some folks were flying a kite on the beach anyway. Blackhead Bay is stunningly beautiful, Matt, you would have an even stronger sense of what a good song that is if you came here to visit, I hope you get the chance. Diva, I'm looking forward to Dublin, I'm sure I can manage to have a good time there! Wish I could get up to Inishowen, but time and the bus schedule won't allow; must be a special place. So, kat and Brett, that's the closest I can come to a travelogue just now, hope it will do. Thinking of you all. Cheers, Margaret

Subject: RE: Hello From Margaret V in Galway
From: harpgirl
Date: 03 Nov 00 - 02:02 PM

I hope the blokes appreciate YOUR singing MV!

Kat... Exactly when would you want to have that Hearme? You can't have it on Sundays and most nights would interfere with whomever wants to sing....someone might schedule a concert in the other room...the men might want it to talk about their guns...the pygmies might want it to talk about blow darts...the christians might want it to discuss Jeus's penis...catspaw might want to blow farts...so I'm sorry you will just have to wait!!!

Oh Margaret, excuse me I got carried away! Hope you are enjoying your sojourn!!!

Subject: RE: Hello From Margaret V in Galway
From: dwditty
Date: 03 Nov 00 - 02:48 PM

Hey Margaret,
Sounds like you're having a great trip. I hope the weather clears a little for you. We'll all be waiting your return on hearme - I'll bet you'll have some new songs. Safe journey.

dw

Subject: RE: Hello From Margaret V in Galway
From: Morticia
Date: 03 Nov 00 - 03:44 PM

I hope you have a wonderful rest of your journey, although it's hard NOT to have a good time in Ireland ( says she who is hardly prejudiced at all).Have a pint of the black stuff for me, we miss you in hearme, have a safe journey home.

Subject: RE: Hello From Margaret V in Galway
From: Robo
Date: 03 Nov 00 - 04:43 PM

No music at Taffe's! Outrageous, I say! Curious, they were doing 2 shows a day when My Sweet and I were there. Must have been the old flat tire routine. Anyhoot, check into Whelans when in Dublin. I was there too early to see a show myself -- they'd just opened the doors in the morning. I was able to see the famous old place and take some pictures. Music will raise what's a beautiful pub to a whole 'nother level, to be sure. And don't forget to have a pint with the Gent at the back bar. He don't say much but is stand-up guy and a great listener -- you'll know him when you see him! Enjoy!

Rob-o

Subject: RE: Hello From Margaret V in Galway
From: Nynia
Date: 03 Nov 00 - 04:57 PM

Hi Margaret

I'm sorry that I'm not going to get the chance to meet you in person, well this time anyway. There's going to be plenty of touristy folk in Temple Bar but if I was you I'd try The Cobblestones or the back bar of O'Shea's Merchant (It's a country pub in Dublin, worth a visit if only to see all the old GAA stuff), it's important to go to the back bar and not the front. Real music in the back, there could be anything in the front. Anyway enjoy, even I'm jealous tonight (LOL), see you on Hearme soon.

Nynia

:-)

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Subject: RE: Hello From Margaret V in Galway
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 03 Nov 00 - 05:59 PM

Go ahead, Margaret. Mention that you could, at any time, go see 'O Brother Where Art Thou?' MONTHS before I get to see it. Rub it in. Get it over with.

Have fun in Ireland. :)

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: Hello From Margaret V in Galway
From: GUEST,Margaret V in Dublin
Date: 04 Nov 00 - 03:16 PM

Oh, Lepus, you make me laugh! I probably won't have the time, I'm only here for two days, really. We'll have to see if I have any more of that "in between" time that coincides with the cinema schedule (see my message re: that sort of time in Mostly Finnish Music thread). I wish you were here so you could see the movie months before you will be able to see it, too. In fact, I wish you were ALL here to go with me to hear music; it would be great to meet you all. This is my first night in Dublin, so I'm now faced with the choice of WHICH one. Thanks for the advice, Rob-o and Nynia, maybe I'll try to find O'Shea's tonight and then go to Whelan's tomorrow during the day and then try the Cobblestone tomorrow night (Sunday). Maybe I could go to Hughes' on Monday night? I'm open to advice! So far, I haven't heard any singing, so unless someone can point me in the right direction for that, I may not be able to fulfill dw ditty's request. By extension, harpgirl, that means I haven't had a chance to sing FOR anybody here, either... Morticia, I promise that the first pint of black stuff I drink tonight will be dedicated to you.

I'll let you know how it turns out! Margaret

Subject: RE: Hello From Margaret V in Galway
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 04 Nov 00 - 03:34 PM

Margaret, how dare you be having a good time in Ireland when you should be entertaining us on Hearme?

Seriously, I'm pleased to see you are having a good time (mind you as Morticia has already said, I guess it's hard not to over there).

Jon

Subject: RE: Hello From Margaret V in Galway
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Nov 00 - 02:34 PM

Oh Margaret, I love the smell of wet sheep! I envy you. And I promise to clear the Hearme rooms of men with guns, pygmies with darts and the occasional Jesus with a penis, if you come and sing for us. Can't do much about Kendall's sense of humor, though - check the threads, you have a lot to catch up on.
Mary