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Monroe's Tavern
In Dominick Street, you can find this huge building easily. There is live music everyday. You can also eat there.
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Roisín Dubh
Located in Dominik Street, it is one the most famous singing pubs of Galway. It is spacious, with the floor made of wood. It receives concerts everyday. Besides, you can also have lunch there.
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Massimo
In Eglinton Street, this pub is spacious and with young customers. On Thursdays people go there to danza salsa.
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Blue Note
In West William Street. This pub is very popular among young people. This place has a hippie air. There you can listen to jazz, funk, soul and even electronic music.
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Crane
In Sea Road, it is the best place to listen to traditional Irish music. In this tavern there are improvised sessions of music.
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The Front Door
In High Street, The Front Door is classical. There you can have the best pints of the town. It is pleasant, but also noisy.
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Quays
This pub is one of the most cozy of the town, but it is usually crowded. It is huge and ancient.
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King's Head
This pub located in High Street, is one of the most lively and known of the town. It is also very tourist. It is very rustic, with benches and tables made of wood.
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Galway at night
Galway is one of the Irish towns more lively. Wherever you go, you can find a pub. Besides, most of them have live music, and people ready to enjoy as much as they can. Because the town is small, you have the cahnce of walking from one oub to another and try some of...
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Kirwan's Lane Creative Cuisine
Modern and cozy restaurant where you can taste dishes inspired in the tradition. Its cuisine is the most interesting of Galway.
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Brasserie Eleven
Located in Middle Street, this restaurant serves typical Irish meals such as chicken, beef or salmon, but also pizzas, wraps and ribs. Besides, they make caffe expresso and capuchino.
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Ard Bia
Also in the main street, this restaurant offers you sandwiches and hamburgers for lunch time, and in the evening, they are more elegant, offering you other variety of dishes.
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McDonagh's
This restaurant, situated in Quay Street, is without any doubt, the best one. There, you can have the best fish and seafood of Galway. On the tableclothes fish recipes are printed. Their specialty are the excellent oysters form the bay of Galway, accompanied with brown...
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Goyas
In Kirwan's Lane, it is one of the best places to have a coffee and a homemade cake. They are really delicious!
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GBC (Galway Baking Company)
Centrally situated, GBC is a café with a restaurant on the first floor. You can order in the café sandwiches, breakfasts, and light meals. In the restaurant there are meat and fish at higher prices
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Fat Freddy's
Also in Quay Street, this multicoloured restaurant has a good environment. The food is mainly Italian. At lunch time, you can have a soup and another dish. Besides, there is terrace when the weather is good.
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Cafe Du Journal
Located in Quay Street, this classical café is full with books. There you can eat sandwiches and salads of premium quality. Then, it is an ideal place to have lunch. In the evening, the dishes are thicker.
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Bicycle
There is any doubt that the best way to go throughout Galway is by bicycle. You can hire one in front of the Cathedral, in a shop called Europa Bicycles.
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Car
If you decide to hire a car, you need to bear in mind that you have to pay a fare of 2€ per hour if you park the car in the centre. It is mandatory to pay from Monday to Saturday from 8 to 18h. Besides, it must be said that if you do not pay, they clamp your car.
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Train
I do not recommend to catch a bus a Ireland. It is very expensive and it takes a long time to arrive at your destinantion. It is so because Ireland did not want to suffer the industrial Revolution as a way to get its independence of England.
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Irish City Link
I think that City Link is the best bus company you can use to travel throughout Ireland. They timetables are fabulous and if you buy the tickets through the Internet you can find very good deals, for example you can find ticket since 1€, which is bargain.
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Buses
The bus station is in the South of Eyre Square. There are a few bus companies: Bus Eireann, City Link, and Go Bus. From Galway you can go by bus to most of the most important towns and cities of Ireland. My piece of advice is to use City Link and Go Bus because they...
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Information Bureau
For all the people who are going to visit Galway it will be useful for them to get a map of the town in the Information Bureau located in Forster Street. It is opened from 9 to 17. 45h.
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Nora Barnacle House
This museum is situated in Bowling Green. This house belonged to the family of Nora Barnacle, the wife of James Joyce. Then, Joyce visited Galway many times in his life. It is a pity that this museum is only open in summer time.
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Galway City Museum
Located in the Spanish Parade, it is opened from Tuesday to Sunday from 11 to 13h and from 14 to 17h. The price of the ticket is 5€. It was the house of the sculpture Clare Sheridan, who was the cousin of Winston Churchill. This museum is consacrated to the history of...
