Thursday, October 26, 2006

Irish Coastline

For those of you keeping track at home, WE FINALLY GOT INTERNET!
And as an added bonus we also get digital cable included with the internet. The offshoot of this is as I am typing up this entry I am watching the riveting ICC Champions Trophy match between Sri Lanka and New Zealand. Yes, I am watching Cricket. I am still trying to figure out the rules in full, but I am starting to get it.
To celebrate the cable hook ups, I figured I needed to do a blog post. But I realized that I really had no content as we are finally starting to settle in to the routine of living in Galway.
So I took a drive up the coast a ways and took some pictures. The only problem with this is that it was horrible weather yesterday. The coast road was flooded in places and the picture taking basically entailed jumping out of the car keeping the camera under my coat. Seeing the picture to take, whipping out the camera, taking three pictures or so as quick as possible and then running back to the car. Not exactly Ansel Adams.
Don't get me wrong, even with the weather 'issues' it was a beautiful drive and worth the effort.




See, I really was there.

I had a double mission yesterday; I was also trying to find a golf club to join and wanted to check one out in Bearna. This is a town about 10 km up the coast from Galway City.
I planned my strategy well by dressing in pants and a golf shirt and going to the club on the day when no one could golf because of the above mentioned weather.
The golf course had a total of one car in the parking lot. It turned out to be the club secretary. This was good since he is the one person I could negotiate with. For a nominal fee I am now a temporary 6 month member of the Bearna Golf and Country Club!
My club:
http://www.bearnagolfclub.com/


Post Note; in response to a comment the 'nominal fee' includes all Green Fees for 6 months. And the secretary also turned out to be one of the club's owners so everything is on the up and up.

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so does that cover green fees? Or is it one of those 'just for the privilege' to play?

Reid

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