Breakfast: In the hotel.
Morning: We depart by motor coach for Galway – the cradle of Gaelic culture in the West and often referred to as the “city of tribes”, as it was home to 14 famous merchant families. We’ll make a stop at Drumcliffe, the final resting place of famed Irish poet W.B Yeats. Yeats is remembered as an important cultural leader, as a major playwright and as one of the very greatest poets of the century. The epitaph on his gravestone is well known: “Cast a cold eye / On life / On death / Horseman, pass by!”
Lunch: Lunch will be served in a restaurant en route.
Afternoon: The transfer to Galway continues.
Dinner: In the hotel.
Evening: At leisure.
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We enjoyed quite an eventful morning. In Drumcliffe we visited the grave of WB. Yeats. We then stopped at the Glencairn Waterfall and saw sheep and had an ice cream cone.
Onward to the Glasshouse Hotel in Sligo for lunch.
On the continued journey to Galway, we stopped in Knock to visit the Knock Shrine and Basilica.
We arrived Galway at 5:30 PM, got settled in our room, then walked 0.3 miles to Thig Coili, a highly rated pub with traditional Irish music. Only had time for a pint, then back to the hotel for dinner. I will go there again during free time in a couple days.
