Great birthday celebrated in Galway, also was Arts Festival. The main attractions was right I do not, but it was hell going on in the small port town on the west coast. About 70 000 people usually live there. After a small misunderstanding was I had much more there than the colleagues with whom I arranged to meet me and I have been to the area I decided to stay a little longer than the Irishman. Therefore, it is this time a bit touristy than usual
Galway is located in a protected bay, protrude into the turn, the Aran Islands from the sea. There I was, images and text additonally below. Above is the view from the dam on the newer part of town, here too, in recent years so a little growth. Less growth, this restructuring of the railway: 
Four years ago we would have in the background a little Gueterbahnhof not seen. He's totally gone up to two sidings for work trains. There is throughout the Irish rail network is only about five regularly scheduled freight trains! If you have seen the fleet lying around here collected four years ago, but the surprising not much. Most cars were tiny two-axis Schaechter elk that looked as if they were coming even from the British. Bulk cargoes such as coal can thus be difficult to transport efficiently. After all: the train in the picture above goes to Limerick. The track has been built in recent years completely after several decades dornroeschen sleep again and will be the foundation stone for a railway infrastructure along the west coast.
has Again Galway lost its function as a transshipment point: are cargo trains, inland waterways, it does not apply in Ireland to my knowledge. For the the dock had been built up. However, occur on the coast at present large oil tanks, according to the seaside one should glegentlich Ship to anchor. 
jam-packed with young people, musicians everywhere: This is the central square, the Eyre Square. Greenery, he seems much less depressing than it was four years ago. Many other attractions are it is not in the city. There's the Katherale where I liked the floor would be best:
the evening we went uA landed in a rather cozy Trad session. Despite all cozy it was very nice lively time. In the picture I'm a little proud, that was a hands-tenth of a second. Much more I could be achieved not because of the rocking base. 
But now to the Aran Islands, just taken Inishmore. The small island is about 14 miles long and three kilometers wide. Especially not many people live there, there are two fishing boats, a few cows and otherwise only tourism as a source of income. Biggest attraction is the Dun Aenghus. This is a Celtic fort, over which there are a variety of information: Some place the time of construction BC to 2000. fixed position or to 200 BC. The three concentric ring-shaped dry stone end abruptly at the 100-meter-high cliffs of the island. So that the back side of the fort would be pretty unneinnehmbar. However, it is also not safe here: Was that by design, or the fortress was originally circular and the rest of the island has eroded away to the cliffs? 
The island is very rocky in the first place. The little Bank of Ireland, like most public buildings or restaurants in the west of the Republic referred to in Irish. Note also the open latrine ... 
here where to cut anything yet, to me it was mainly about the interesting color combination: 
Reetdachhaeuser there are only a few in the region. If, then usually left as a tourist-attraction or even - as this one: 
... and all the rust a little faster. 
That is now the back side of the fort here and there are people close to the cliffs - then a folder and she calls back again. Who closed to crawling on his stomach, can be up to the edge. I have not tried both, there are probably good reasons why I have kept in the picture the camera so wrong ... 
As everywhere in Ireland is the small island littered with abandoned residential buildings. 
Apart from the two intact fishing boats in the harbor there were also two broken. 
Here are two pictures of Dublin as an addendum: the new Samuel Beckett Bridge from a different perspective 
and a memorial for those who have left behind many abandoned apartment houses. In the background, the offices of the Ulster Bank. 
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