Hi there,

on this solitary sunny day I am going to add a new location to my experiences and travels around Ireland.
Today Galway is the destination.

The City of Galway (or Cathair na Gaillimhe in Irish), located in County Galway, is a very active and gorgeous city on the west coast of Ireland.
Some friends, also colleagues, and me were long planning to go there for having some fun as well as visiting the city; we ended up going for St.Paddy’s weekend and my birthday.


We, my friends Chris, Cedric and me, left straight after work and took a bus which brought us to Galway.
After a quick stop to the hostel, a quite nice hostel located almost in the city center, we headed to the High Street at the King Head’s pub. There we had a drink and met a friend of Chris and Cedric, Ciara; she joined us for the night as well as for the weekend.

[The aforementioned pub, picture taken the day after, of course]

After that pub I can’t remember any other name of pub or else; after some pubs we went to a club and had some fun there, touching bold people’s heads (who was there knows :P ).

The day after, when the three of us woke up, we went out for getting some food and for going around the city a while, before meeting up with Ciara and, later on, with her roomie.


[Going to the city center]

Galway is also famous for its beaches; they would be great if there was a different weather. As you could have noticed from the previous picture, the weather was cloudy (what a news :P ).


[The 'Latin Quartier']


These two days have been amazing, spend some nice time in Galway with two very good friends and met a new one. This weekend helped me a lot to go through the bad birthday ‘party’ I had and I also want to thank them for this. Thaaaaankss :D .

I will definitely go back and hopefully find a good weather this time :) .

I know, I have not written much, the next time I will describe it better; the reason is that we did not visit the city that much, so I want to keep it for the next time.

Extras:

Lately I have been listening to this track and it caught me for its melody and lyrics.

[Black - Water on Snow]

I have been waiting for long for being able to post this video that, in my opinion, is incredible: its composition, how it has been shot and the project itself.
For whom does not know it, it is called 50people 1 question.
Many people and crews made similar or followed the same project: basically taking a city and asking to 50 random people a single question which can go from ‘What is your one dream’ to something more personal and sometimes hard to share like ‘What is your biggest regret?’ (question asked in this version shot in Galway).
The project is mostly born for showing how people react to such questions as well as how they answer (if they do). From the several footages that can be found on the net, it is easy to spot a vein of surprise and shyness when people have to answer in front of their friends or partners; while people by themselves seems to be more open and sincere (of course I am only talking about those people who are kept on the release version).

The video below (with all the others that can be found on youtube, for instance) can be watched just for having a good time but it could also help many people to think, asking themselves the same question sincerely and with the same sincerity give an answer.

[Link to the Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/50people1question ]

And I want to end with an aphorism plus another one, which it makes 2 aphorisms:

“Sometimes I wonder why birds always choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere in the world, then I ask myself the same question.”

And the ‘another one’:

“The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods. “

~Theodor Reik, Of Love and Lust, 1957
I wish you had a nice time reading this last article, I invite you to read all the previous ones (if you had not done it yet) whenever you feel like.

I wish you a wonderful day and may tomorrow be the begin of an even better new part of your lives.

Peace,
Nesh

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