The evening in Athlone was long. First there was a Close neck-and-neck race in the Burch house at backgammon.
Later then the Pub Tour. Since Athlone has two or three pubs close to the centre, we visited them all one by one.
Live music here, live music there. We stroll through the city, become music critics and finally end up at "Seans Bar". Rumour has it that this is the oldest pub in the world. A notice with an entry in the Guinness Book of Records seems to confirm it. Okay, another quick visit and a small drink and the usual music enjoyment. Just another Saturday evening.
Sunday will then be dedicated to history. Or, as they say as permanent travellers: under the sign of old stones.
We visit Clonmacnoise. In the 6th century, the Shannon crossed the island's east-west road axis here. So it was an excellent place to build a settlement, a wooden church and later a cathedral. Later still, the High Kings (what that is now remains a mystery to us) were buried here and at some point before or after that Clonmacnoise was regarded as a holy place. (I'll probably never be a history explainer, I can't wrap my head around the dates!)
The extensive grounds, the multimedia exhibition, a really interesting guided tour and mega-bursting sunny weather made the trip here really worthwhile.
Ireland, you're really pushing yourself in the last few metres!
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So beautiful. Clonmacnoise was my very first stop in Ireland and is therefore special in my heart to this day. We also had magically beautiful weather back then. Many greetings Christiane
Oh how beautiful! Always great how we can bring back memories. (when we read other travel blogs, it happens to us so often too!)
Kind regards - Gerd & Heike