Wasn't particularly keen to go out last night and thought we were heading to the village for a few quiet ones. Big Mistake !! We headed into Cahirciveen with the 3 lads from Dublin who have been visiting for the weekend. The festival was in full swing and we headed into Franks for a drink, the Q at the bar was 4 deep. OH persevered and we got a nice seat as well. Then Pauric (who's about 6'6'' tall) decided we should go walkabout. We headed to Mike Murt's (as mentioned in blog yesterday) but it was difficult to even get in the door so we headed to Bowlers (a farmer's pub apparently) and what craic we had. A woman came in playing bagpipes and played a few tunes, and she had 2 girls with her collecting for charity. We left there and decided to head for Kelly's Bar, a tiny olde world bar up the road (there are 8 bars in Cahirciveen, there used to be over 30 !!). We had gone in there last year during the day and it was just a couple of old timers on stools chatting and singing songs. Well this year its been 'pimped' and its a real young peoples joint (we were the old timers now !!) It even had a disco out the back, well I was in my element, love a bit of a dance, and i'm not mad about Irish music, but he had all the newer sounds and the golden oldies. Danced for hours and had great fun. Came out and it was 3am. Headed home, Eamonn was driving, as he wasn't drinking (thanks Eamonn, who is now on his way home to Dublin). Got home and the lads had another beer and we all stood outside looking at the stars, there were lots of shooting stars and we were pointing out the Plough, etc and all the different ones we thought we knew. I made a cuppa and got into my jammes, finally fell into bed at 04.24am but firstly I had to scrub my feet which were BLACK from the dancing barefoot.
What a night, it was one of the best night out's I've had in a long time, and all impromptu, the best kind of night, and added bonus, as I was drinking Heineken and not Pinot Grigio - no headache.
The lads have left now so will get cracking tidying up, washing bedding etc, and taking it easy for the rest of the evening. Hope there's something good on BBC4 or another channel. Image was taken on Saturday night before the lads went out and an impromptu session started in the house, sun was in Alan's face so its not a great one of him, but hes a great musician and good guy. He cooked dinner yesterday evening as well. Thanks Alan. No drinking of any kind today or for the rest of the week. :)
Namaste,
Marie.
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