"Take Me To Church"
- sanderssam
- Jul 9, 2019
- 2 min read
Well, it finally happened, out of some combination of business and laziness, no post for a day or so. But did a lot of cool things regardless!
A lot of this stuff is really just "living my best life" #thingsmillenialssay
Did I mention it's gorgeous here?
Anyhow, to fast forward to some food, found a great restaurant, Kai Cafe for lunch. MUST GO IF ARE IN GALWAY. Here's stuff I couldn't eat, but wish I could:
But had a great fresh crab salad!
Decided to go to the church concert-- there's one almost every evening here at 8 pm #tunesinthechurch. People really use space here, no matter how historic or consecrated. Obligatory church pix here:
Ok, so that last one is important for a couple of reasons:
1) It's the tombstone of one of the key mayors in Galway's history
2) It was the stage for the singing and dancing about to take place.
That means, literally, I spent my time in a church watching someone dance on someone's grave.
The harpist behind him was amazing, had a wonderful singing voice as well. I don't want to just make this chock full of clips, but believe me when I say the church's acoustics were phenomenal. I also need to learn the difference between a jig, hornpipe, and a reel... but that's a later problem.
Anyhow, afterwards, met up with Alex Newton and one of his choir friends at a nearby bar for yet more music. I was tickled that the name of this all-white band was the "Black Magic Band", and they played a song by Average White Band, as below:
All in all pretty good for an 18-piece band!
And just because I don't want to do two posts, here's some shots from my poitin distillery today.
Did you know section:
-poitin is like irish moonshine, but it tastes like irish tequila?
-whiskey [sic] comes from the irish usquebaugh, meaning "water of life"? Comes from when monks used to call it acqua vita after initially creating it
-poitin was illegal allegedly to make until just a few years ago... so, officially you'll hear a lot about distilleries popping up with it then. (warning, may have taken place before a couple of years ago).
-the irish owner of this distillery will deliberately speak irish to his employee in certain parts to make sure you don't understand what they're saying.
Absolutely a beautiful day in Galway here today btw... don't want to waste it inside so heading out soon!
Random Thoughts:
-For the music nerds out there, just learned that a reel is in simple time (2/2, 4/4, etc.) and a jig is in compound time (6/8, etc.). A hornpipe is a reel, but has dotted rhythms (so it *feels* syncopated). Whew, was worried there for a second.🤓
-Guys, don't be fooled by the cool sounding place "Mutton Island" if you come here. You'd think "at the very least it'll be scenic", but turns out it's just a waste management facility. Which, even worse after I walked all the way there, turns out you can't even go on the island!
Moment of Zen:
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