Some weekends trips are about the culture, others are just about excellent company, excessive booze and cheesy chips and gravy. Naturally, being a trip to Ireland, this trip was about the latter! The happy concurrance of 2 of my friends birthdays and by concurrance we mean within a month of each other was an excellent excuse for a quiet and cultured trip to the land of guiness. Being a birthday trip, the details are best kept sparse to protect they young and innocent, but it's fair to say that Galway knows how to show you a good time. A typical University town with many pubs, we missed uni term, but stumbled into Race Week which is quite large on the social calendar. We may have attempted to drink a pub dry on our first day, but
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