@THM - tell her Burger and Shake on Marchmont Street is fantastic. If she likes burgers and shakes, that is. Otherwise, all the good restaurants are on the other side of Tottenham Court Road.

Where are you Hillbillys up to now, I hope you haven't run out of that skunk stew u's a been a eatin' ...... the UK will let let anyone in nowadays, so will Eire.
Cead mile failte

I lived in a shitty flat on the block behind the Russell Square tube station, but only a block off Russell Square itself, so less than a half mile to the British Museum...and also hit the Euston Tap a few times myself.

Ah, gutted to miss the impromptu drinks in London - I've been London based for five months now, working near the British Museum (I'm a member so I get access to the member room!) It'd've been good to meet a few Diplomacy obsessives (uh, I mean fans...) When's the next one?

I start work in Oxford next week so will be closer to the big smoke than ever before. Would be great to see some of our other nutters in the flesh

I'm in London a few times a month and will be working in town lots in nov/dec if anyone's around.

I've done it once so now have a proven track record of attending Webdip get togethers, not Thursday or nights United are playing and I'm fair game

In Dogellau, Wales tonight. Figured we'd rent a car from Bath to Hollyhead. 6 hours into our 3 hour drive (the M4 was suite today! What is bankers ducking weekend or summat?) We decided to stop for the night. Tomorrow we make our way Eire, via the Hollyhead ferry to Dublin.

We stocked up on dries possem (nobody eats skunk anymore) so we'll be set.

Any dublinDippers who'd like to meat up tomorrow night?

Fucking UK Autocorrect!

(the M4 was suite today! What is bankers ducking weekend or summat?)

Should be
(the M4 was shite today! What is it, bankers fucking weekend or summat?)

No worries guys, you'll be in your castle tonight, eating suckling pig and boiled potatoes, careful with that pochin, it will make your hair curl.
I used to love Kilkenny but not everywhere sells it, and if you like Guinness you'll find it has a slightly different taste than anywhere else in the world.

In Dublin tonight, slummin it in a hostel. Castle Ashford is Monday night. Looking forward to the suckling pig, but not the boiled potatoes. I'll have to ask around about pochin, I've never eard of it

Sorry I spelt it wrong -
Poitín or poteen is a traditional Irish distilled, highly alcoholic beverage (60%-90% ABV).
Poitín was traditionally distilled in a small pot still and the term is a diminutive of the Irish word pota, meaning "pot". It is traditionally distilled from malted barley, grain, potatoes or whey
It is one of the strongest alcoholic beverages in the world, and for centuries was illegal in Ireland

Get down to Temple Bar Pub in Temple Bar, it will be heaving and there should be some live traditional Irish music

Temple Bar Square was amazing! Thanks again for being my virtual tour guide Nigee!

I saw an Irish read band at one place, and at another there were some drunken likes from Manchester trying to fake an Irish Jig, and this beautiful Irish woman went out impromptu like, and showed them how it was one, to the delight of everyone there. Definitely a proper Dublin experience!

Tonight in the much slower town of Belmullet ... Up Mayo!! To the championships again, hopefully they pull it off this year!

Bollocks! "Irish read band" s/b "Irish trad band"

I thought maybe it was Irish reed band like they played some cool reed instrument (an Irish horn of some sort? I don't know).

The tin whistle (or is it thin, can't tell here since they don't do the "th" ting (see what I did there?)) Is the closest thing to that. It's what you hear in all all the trad songs that sounds like a flute.


I just learned that "The Quiet Man" was filmed at castle Ashford, where I'm staying tomorrow night. I remember CF and Draug talking about that movie around st party day. Never a john Wayne fan myself, so I've never seen it, but maybe after this true, I'll check it out on netflix as ill have a point of reference.

I remember many a drunken night at the Temple Bar back in the day, also a great stag weekend in Clairemorris which is up your way in Mayo but not quite as far.
Great memories, I love the Irish :-)

You have to get it via DVD off Netflix.

At Ashford castle. Wow, Fucking amazing! Turns out they have The quiet man available to watch 24-7. Don't know if I want to take the time to watch it hear though. Is rather use a netflix dvd on it. Tomorrow, we're going to walk down to the house that he bought in the movie. Apparently the castle itself isn't in the movie, they just filmed it on the grounds here. The stars all stayed in the castle while filming though.

I also learned that when they were making the movie, they hadn't gotten electricity to this part of Ireland yet. So they ran it from Dublin. Apparently there was a big deal being made about American moviestars coming to town, and they needed to jump through whatever hoops necessary to accommodate them.

Check out where I'm staying at
WWW.Ashford.ie

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/10257633/What-do-London-Underground-stops-taste-like.html