My SeaSessions 2012

I went to my first SeaSessions in Bundoran last weekend.
It is a very vibrant, cool music festival, down by the beach, exposed to the Atlantic fury.

Weekend Pass

Brilliant line-up:

KAISER CHIEFS, THE MINUTES, REV RUN (RUN DMC) & DJ RUCKUS, THE CORONAS, SIMON & OSCAR (OCEAN COLOUR SCENE), HOT 8 BRASS BAND, BITCHES WITH WOLVES, DELORENTOS, THE ORIGINAL RUDEBOYS, JAPE, WE CUT CORNERS, TOBY KAAR, TIERANNIESAUR, DUNE COLLECTIVE, CRY MONSTER CRY

I headed up ( 3 and half hours drive ) Friday afternoon, after ensuring I had a proper tent in order. 

Once there, after parking into some unofficial field ( this would cause some epic muddy departure later ), I set up my tent, near the Tramore boys and girls.

cosy camper

After a couple of drinks, we headed off to the gig tents, and started to enjoying the first bands ( notably the minutes ).

Finished off Friday night with the Kaiser Chiefs, brilliant, even if i missed 4-5 songs - including "I predict a riot"... or may be it was a perfect timing - due to event independent of my own will .. and a lovely red haired called Heather - if it was ever to be her name - only to ( most likely ) never see her again.

On Saturday, we awake in the mud, and were back on the drinks, I focus my attention on the North tent, and we had a great gig with TierAnnieSaur ( check their album on band camp ).

TierAnnieSaur...

Tierannisaur...

Fashion sense, how not to wear sunglasses:

No fashion sense

Hot 8 Brass Band on the main stage... warming us up to the sound of Marvin Gaye song

Sexual healing ....

The coronas on main stage:

The coronas...

Lessons learned over the weekend:
#1: All bits are important in a tent... especially the tiny piece which goes on top, and prevent rain to get down through the vent.
#2: Take Monday off, you'll need it to rest after, despite the sleeping till 12am everyday.
#3: Never ever ask a girl's name after making out with her. Loud music is not a valid excuse, nor bad hearing.
#4: Even if you take your ticket alone, you always end up, meeting friends.
#5: A Nissan micra is not a car made for offroad driving... even if mine is quite good in the mud.
#6: Many girls always try to look pretty and stylish, even in the mud and in the rain... which is an impressive feature at times ( Remind me of Clisare video on camping )


Anyway I loved the SeaSessions, and will definitely think of coming back next year ( probably with a Monday off, so i can enjoy the Sunday bands ).

Parents Irish Holidays - Part 3 Donegal

Guinness for strength...

Heather Blooming

Sheeps on Donegal cliffs...

Donegal coastline...

Walking on Aran Mor

The Ferry to bring us back on land

Carrick-on Shannon pub ... Ireland coloured

Bundoran Beach

Walking on Donegal beaches of fine sand

Mum

Dad

The END

The End

Irish Holidays with my parents

I am back from 10 days travelling with my parents in the North of Ireland with my parents. A good occasion for me to visit, Irish places I don't usually hang into.

Here's the full road trip ( minus some detours ):
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Over 1400 km, a couple of days in Dublin , then in UK before finishing in Donegal.

Tallship anchored on the Liffey

Guinness for moral support

First we started in Dublin Visiting the Guinness StoreHouse The quays, and Trinity College and the book of Kells

Sculputre along the old quays

 

That's the way to ensure it won't be stolen...

 Also a bit of wandering under the sun in the streets of the fair city: We also visited St Patrick Cathedral, and seen it's organ fund:

A keg as an organ fund... inside St Patrick cathedral ... ???

Suprisingly at the restaurant in Temple Bar I was able to find some Muprhy:

My favourite stout... Murphy

Then after a small detour through NewGrange ,we were off to Belfast to see the Titanic Quarter:

The entrance of the Titanic experience...

The dry dock in the Titanic Quarter in Belfast

We settle for a couple of days in Antrim, visiting the Bushmills Old Distillery:

A nice sample of Bushmills

 Then the Giant Causeway, and the coastline. Before going back to the republic we went to Derry:

Diamong in Derry

 The flower were blooming all over the place...

Heather blooming

We settled in Killybeg for a couple of days:

Killybeg fishing harbour

Off course we had a bit more pints of Guiness:

Mor stout

And healthy Irish breakfast:

Irish Breakfast ... foodporn

We also did a bit of tweed shopping:

Tweed shopping

It was soon time to go back to Dublin, but on the way back we stopped at the Bundoran beaches:

Bundoran Beach

And Carrick On Shannon. By 5PM wednesday we were in Dublin, I said goodbye to my parents before they fly back to France, and soon I was on the way back to Limerick via the bus:

On the way back to Limerick

 I realize that I have a lot more pics, so I'll add a post or 2 to add those later.

All picture on this post taken with Instagram on Android.