This day was a bit mild after our country touring the day before. We walked around City Centre and tried some shopping. We also walked down to the old dock, chatted with a man who was asking for a Euro get his stitches out because he lost his motorcycle and left his cash card at home though he was clear that he wasn’t a bum but just having a rough spot. We continued along the Long Walk under the Spanish arch through the Spanish Parade across Wolfe Tone Bridge over the canal basin and then along Claddagh Quay off the map. We snapped a few pictures of the bay. We also snapped a cigarette box warning — the smoking warnings tended to be very blunt in Ireland. In one store on the cigarette display it said something like” smokers die younger.”
We ate in an Irish restaurant and I tried a traditional Irish breakfast with rashers and black and white pudding. I wanted to try some authentic Irish food. You’ll really want to read about black pudding. It was one of the more spicy or flavorful foods I had. It didn’t taste bad, just a little strange. I was under the impression that it was a pudding as in dessert pudding. It’s more like a dry meatloaf consistency.
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