Sandy Roe's Old Mush

[rockyracoon]

Just got back from a trip to Dublin were we stayed in a lovely hotel called Beckett's, the walls were plastered with Sandy Roe's face.

Very surreal, never knew who Sandy's (old) avatar was til now :)

[janbee]

Sandy is a handsome George Clooney dapper lookalike. .. or so I thought. !

[ummmm]

Yeah...that would be a bit weird.

Did you have a nice time?

[rockyracoon]

We had a great time thanks, we were summonsed over for a happy occassion. I swear it gets dearer and dearer every time we go, I don't know how the people afford it.

Janbee, if only it was George's face :)

[ummmm]

Getting to Ireland can be really cheap but the amount you spend once there it's more expensive than a holiday abroad. We don't even have to pay for accommodation.

[rockyracoon]

We stay with family usually but for the Saturday night we decided to stay where we were having the meal, the hotel itself wasn't expensive but the drinks, jeez, you need a mortgage. My SIL came over to the UK just before Christmas and happened upon a Wetherspoon, she didn't know herself lol.

A Jack and Ginger was about €6.50 in a local pub, and the ginger was not great.

[ummmm]

It's always bad when you land back in England and airport prices look cheap :-)

[Booldawg]

Is that because of the Euro? Maybe the UK made a shrewd move not adopting it?

[ummmm]

When they got the Euro it's like they rounded everything up.

[rockyracoon]

I think my liver's grateful that we've come home, I need to do that dry January.

[sunny-dave]

Nah - why on earth deprive yourself of one of the few ways to cheer up the dreariest month of the year?

[rockyracoon]

It won't last long Dave, I'll probably get to about 7pm this Friday :)

[retrocop]

Could you afford to drink back here thro January after your sojourn to Dublin?
Don't keep me in suspense. Who was the real Sandy Roe?

[sunny-dave]

The pricing of booze in bars in Ireland is fascinating (and pretty predatory).

Over in the West, if you go into a 'local bar for local people' (especially if it has a bit of competition) you'll get quite sensible prices - about on a par with the UK.

Go in anywhere with a clientele of blow-ins and tourists and your eyes will water, especially if you stray beyond the standard Heineken/Stout.

An increasingly prevalent practice is also to charge almost as much for a 'half' as a 'pint' - again to catch the 'must try a Guinness' tourists.

[Tilly2]

Beckett's is a big clue, Retro.

[ummmm]

Food prices are extortionate.

[rockyracoon]

I think I'll manage Retro, drinks here are neaarly half what they are there.

Sorry, didn't realise I hadn't put who it was, Samuel Beckett apparently. :)

[rockyracoon]

That's the thing Dave, the pub opposite my SIL is in a residential area with no tourists whatsoever, it's full of locals.

[rockyracoon]

Food prices would scare the bejeezus out of me if I had to live there. And wine, a bottle of Blossom Hill is around €9 in the offy.

[ummmm]

Sunday carvery was 15 euros. Here it's £6.95 and much better quality.

[retrocop]

Thanks rocky for the info. Becketts was no big clue to me this morning having spent last evening quaffing pints of Devil's Backside in my local Weatherspoon. I could only think of Thomas O'Beckett! :+)