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The Electric Picnic music festival in Stradbally, Ireland has made the TimesOnline’s list of “Europe’s 20 best summer music festivals,” so we thought we’d take a moment to tell you about the festival in case you decide you want to go!
The article describes Electric Picnic as “Ireland’s boutique festival,” partly because it takes place on the 600-acre Stradballey Hall Estate outside Dublin. But additionally, the festival attracts an incredible lineup each year of musical acts that you’ve not only heard of, but that you’d actually be happy to pay money to see.
For Electric Picnic 2008, which runs from August 29-31, the musical lineup includes the Sex Pistols, Sinead O’Connor, Sigur Ros, My Bloody Valentine, Underworld, George Clinton and the P-Funk Allstars, Turin Brakes, The Breeders, Goldfrapp, Henry Rollins, Wilco, Duffy, The Roots, The Gossip and Franz Ferdinand. Electric Picnic also features a comedy element, as well as theatre, cinema, and spoken word performances. And with parts of the festival even focusing on the kids, there’s really something for everyone.
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It is pretty much a given that any trip to Ireland will include the consumption of beer. Lots of beer. And these days, because so many people having little digital cameras and video cameras with them, we not only get to hear about tales of Guinness-fueled drunken debauchery, we get to see them, too. Lucky, lucky us.
Here are just a few of the gems I found. (Warning, some of these are probably NSFW. Which is, of course, why we find them so interesting, right?)
Drunk people + a fire extinguisher = lots of mad giggling.
Supermarkets can be funny when you’re drunk!
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Most of us have dreamed at one time or another of rubbing elbows with the rich and famous. It’s one of those things that is unattainable for all but the very (privileged) few, right? Well, yes and no - if, for instance, you want to brag to all your friends that you’ve been a guest in a home owned by the late Merv Griffin, that’s as easy as renting a room at St. Clerans Manor House in Craughwell, County Galway.
See, when you’re rich and famous you get to do things like buy castles and historic homes in far-off places, restore them to their former glory, and then either live in them or turn them into five-star hotels. In Merv Griffin’s case, he said that buying St. Clerans Manor House was a “long cherished dream” - but he didn’t keep this treasure to himself. Instead, after St. Clerans was restored Griffin opened it up to guests as a luxurious hotel.
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Booking a vacation rental through a website takes a certain leap of faith - you’ve never seen the property, except in photographs, and you’re relying on someone else’s description of it to decide whether you want to call it “home” for a little while. And to make things even more confusing, if you just do an online search for “vacation rentals in Ireland” you’ll end up with pages of results and no indication of which websites are better than others.
To help you sort through the chaos, I’ve compiled a short list here of some of the vacation rental websites that I happen to think are useful. They don’t all have the same number of properties offered, but they do each have their benefits. What I’d suggest is that you check each one out for yourself to see which ones you prefer. Then, when you’re ready to book a vacation rental in Ireland you won’t have to hunt through all the hundreds of search results to find a website you like to use - you can go straight to the ones you’ve already tested and found helpful.
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Clonmel may not be on most peoples’ list of places to visit when they’re planning a trip to Ireland, but sometimes a good festival is enough to make you change your plans. Celebrating with a local community - or even just watching them celebrate - makes a vacation unique and interesting, and helps you get to know a place a little better. So, why not join in the fun of the Clonmel Junction Festival?
First held in 2001, the Clonmel Junction Festival incorporates art, music, theatre and dance in both traditional and more avant-garde settings. The festival takes over the town of Clonmel for its run every July (usually eight-nine days), with performances in the streets as well as performance venues, so it’s impossible to be in Clonmel during the festival and not get into the spirit of things.
Each year the Clonmel festival has a theme - in 2007 it was “Travel and Transport,” and that was worked into every facet of the festival. There’s an effort each year to engage younger audiences, and in 2007 kids were encouraged to think about transportation in different ways. Art installations around town featured the “Travel and Transport” theme as well, although most of the theatre, dance and music performances were not tied to the theme.
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When you’re hunting for a hotel in Ireland, you generally have two ways you can go about it. You can either concentrate solely on things like location and cost, taking whatever results come up and choosing from whatever cheap hotels are available, or you can look for specific properties because you’ve heard about them or they’ve been recommended to you. Either way, you’ve got a bit of online search work ahead of you. We’ve tried to make the process a little simpler (no matter which process you’re using) with our new Ireland …
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