Improving Ireland's Climate MKII - This time with a MKII - Caution: Contains Spikey!

[danthecapriman]

Does anybody actually live or work in Ireland anymore!? Everything looks empty and abandoned. Countryside looks lovely though.

[Junkman]

We passed another house:

 

 

 

 

Here Spikey invoked his veto right:

 

 

 

So we drove the other way and passed a petrol station:

 

 

 

 

Climate improvement: Zilch!

 

Need a big bloody V8...

[Junkman]

Does anybody actually live or work in Ireland anymore!? Everything looks empty and abandoned. Countryside looks lovely though.

 

Just a few filthy rich farts that don't have to work.

Nobody else can possibly afford to live here, unless he racks up debt the size of Canada.

[Eddie Honda]

Climate improvement: Zilch!

 

 

Dunno about that. It was at least dry riding home just now.

[danthecapriman]

Just a few filthy rich farts that don't have to work.

Nobody else can possibly afford to live here, unless he racks up debt the size of Canada.

It looks strange, everything just seems to have been left. Even that petrol station, the signs etc don't look all that old but no life there either!

 

 

If you need a 'big bloody V8' for climate improvage your welcome to use my Mercury next time you go, it is for a good cause and all!

[DeeJay]

Does anybody actually live or work in Ireland anymore!? Everything looks empty and abandoned. Countryside looks lovely though.

Probably all sitting in traffic on the M50.

[Dirk Diggler]

A combination of nearly all manufacturing industries leaving since the late 70s, motorways bypassing everything, an unprecedented recession, and the banks only repossessing some things outside the greater Dublin area basically tying loads of property and people up in knots for ever; if the bank loaned 300k on that shell in one of the pics in 2006, do they accept it actually has no value, literally 1000 at the auction and write down the loss or do what they've been doing with government acquiescence; pretend and forget and keep the 300k 'asset' on the banks books

 

Loving the pictures on Arklow docks; that breakers yard with the classic lorries is called Mulligans; some really prize stuff turns up there from time to time. You were just beside the coast road (marked Clogga Strand just before the motorway junction coming from Arklow towards Mulligans) Lovely scenery from there to Courttown, and you can follow the coast all the way to Wexford, lovely beaches all the way along and seals play off the coast

 

It's a beautiful banana republic we have here

[Junkman]

Unprecedented recession?

 

Whoever didn't see it coming won't be helped by driving with lights on by night either.

I have never seen anything this home made outside Greece.

And this is just the beginning.

[Largactil]

Give me a shout if you have a FTP in North Co. Dublin / Balbriggan area and I'll bring some Guinness

[somewhatfoolish]

Must be a bit draughty with that window open.

 

Ben

Indeed, nice double glazing though; whoever flogged them that made his commission.

[mercrocker]

Indeed, nice double glazing though; whoever flogged them that made his commission.

 

Sure, 'twill outlive da house....

[Junkman]

The Climate is still miserable, hence Spikey

 

 

and I decided to have another go at Improving© it.

 

 

We passed a petrol station:

 

 

 

Spikey said: Don't even THINK about it!

 

[Junkman]

I bet this is a famous landmark for local shiters:

 

[Junkman]

We passed a few houses.

 

 

 

[Junkman]

Then we ended up in one of the peat bogs of my current employer.

 

 

 

 

I can understand the no dogs bit, but no guns?

 

 

 

There was little else allowed, too.

 

 

 

Thanks God they didn't say a word about some thermonuclear device.

[Junkman]

The area was nice, as usual.

 

[Junkman]

We passed another house.

 

 

 

Then we retreated to the temporary GGG HQ, where we currently have a drink.

 

[Junkman]

Spikey

 

 

and I did not get a seat on one of those aeroplanes yesterday evening, because fucking tourists.

So we drove to an area with not much in it.

 

 

We arrived at a house.

 

 

 

They didn't want us inside, so we had to commandeer this one as our temporary GGG Headquarter:

 

 

There was OLLI.

 

[Junkman]

In the evening, we went to a posh place, because we were told so by a friend.

 

 

 

It's this sort of Lexus posh, if you know what I mean.

I bet it was quite nice before they ruined it.

[Junkman]

We went inside.

 

 

 

 

We attended a drinks reception and a dinner.

[Junkman]

My friend and his father met Spikey.

 

 

[Junkman]

His car was parked in the car park outside.

 

 

It had been playing up a bit on the way there, because French.

So we had to fix it.

 

But we were in good company.

 

 

[Junkman]

There were a few more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Junkman]

This one was made by a man from Austria.

 

 

[Junkman]

MOAR?

 

Okay...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Junkman]

One thing I learned on the occasion:

 

Those pretend posh gits don't wash their hands after they went for a piss, because their shit doesn't stink, you know.

So avoid touching the door handle on your way out (toilet doors still do open to the inside in Ireland).

[Dirk Diggler]

You've heard the saying,'How do you become a millionaire?' The answer being 'Start as a billionaire and buy a hotel.'

 

So many of these hotels (google that one and Dan Morrissey, or Ritz Carlton Johnny Ronan to get a flavour) were built as vanity projects by men who believed themselves to be rich. And often hotels like these came to be their undoing.

 

For forks sake, a 'destination, spa hotel' in a place like Tullow; how could it ever sustain itself?

 

Great pics; if you get a chance you should try some of the microbrewerys not too far away; I'd recommend the Wicklow brewery in Redcross or Macreddin hotel; that second one really is a beautiful spot; a non Lexus fancy hotel if you get what I mean

[Junkman]

I do as much sighseeage as I can, but don't forget that we are not on holidays here.

So this morning, we had a plane to catch. Of course, we took the scenic route.

 

And guess what we found!

You can run from me, but you certainly can't hide.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Should anyone be interested:

 

[Junkman]

After much on driveage, we arrived at the sea.

 

 

 

 

Believe it or not, the sign says that the coast is closed. I'm NOT making this up!

But why am I not suprised?

 

 

Anyway, we said sod it and drove to the aeroport.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

That paths been closed since I was a child; it's the usual salve to absolve liability from the council or golf club if a rock falls on you or you get hit by a golf ball; it's a lovely bit of the coast, about 100 yards beyond that car park you can take the lane up to the lighthouse; really beautiful spot

 

You found the rover for sale; I was out that way during the week and he'd cut the grass from the front of it

 

If I'd known you were going to be out this way, I would have suggested a pint in the Cartoon Inn