Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1995 03:42:37 GMT
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From: "P.J. Kenny" <gremlin@iol.ie>
Subject: :) Irish Get-together FAQ. (hic)
Matthew wrote:
>p.s. When Ireland has *their* get-together, now THAT
>would be fun to go to.
Don't count on it, pal. Neither the Great Galvo nor the
Bushrat has succumbed to the heady temptations of the pint
glass. Our get-togethers are sober and *very* foody. Now, if
you like pizza...
Anyway, it looks like the great Irish Vanagon-list get-together
is set for next Friday evening.
Place : Numero Uno Pizza take-away,
Barrack Street, Ennis, Co. Clare.
(beside the Clare Champion office)
Time : 9.00pm GMT.
Bring : Money for pizza and coca-cola (Transporters must be
driven)
How to get there (esp. for North Americans)
----------------
First, go to your nearest airport. Catch flight to JFK. Go to
Aer Lingus or Delta terminal and book flight to Shannon.
(Don't go to Dublin. You'll get mugged.) Spend seven hours in
'plane. Watch a movie or something. Visit the charming 'indoor
outhouse'. Land at Shannon. (Another indoor outhouse.) Go to
the public telephone in the arrival hall. Ring 29691 and pray
that I choose to answer the 'phone. If I do, state who you are
and what you are doing in a foreign country. Wait 20 minutes
while I drive to the airport to getcha.
To get to Numero Uno from beautiful Shannon Airport
(celebrating 50 years), take the only road from Shannon until
you come to a sign which says
' <-- ENNIS'
and go left (hence the arrow). Drive through the beautiful
green, wet, cow-filled rural landscape. Marvel at the numerous
beautiful hacienda-style ranchhouse bungalows, sporting
'accomodation' signs. Drive straight through
Newmarket-on-Fergus, a rotten little hole of a town :O and
continue north. About 16 miles later, you'll reach the
glittering metropolis of Ennis, the vibrant and entertaining
capital of County Clare, where you can play the local sport of
dodging the manic drivers of stupid little Japanese tin-cans.
Wonderful! Turn right at the third set of traffic lights and
immediately take the next right, then stop! Numero Uno is the
tiny place on the right, beside the double gates. Please be
pleasant to the staff, as they are doing their best and some of
'em are Scottish. We'll be waiting in the car park across the
road in the back of my Transporter (the blue one with the bent
bullbar and huge grey scratch on the sliding door (unless I
collected you at the airport. Then you;ll already be in the
van. (you see?))) We'll then travel in convoy to Galvo's house
where Shelly (his lovely missus) (hi, Shelly) will ask Galvo to
make delicious freshly ground coffee for the guests. I'll
bring a pack of choccy bikkies and a videotape of Tazmania.
CAN YOU AFFORD TO MISS THE VANAGONDOLIERS' BEST ADVENTURE OF
1995?
BOOK *N*O*W* TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT! TRANSPORTERS WILL BE
ALLOCATED
PLACES ON A STRICTLY FIRST COME - FIRST SCRATCHED BASIS.
PRIZE TO BEST-DRESSED TRANSPORTER : Galvo's scotty-dog Mac in
the loading deck of your just-vacuumed van for ten minutes so
he can leave a large 'log' for good-luck. I can heartily
recommend this (right, John????)
So ... who's comin'? :)
SCHPONFIRKLE!!!
PJ - the ever inventive Bushrat.
"Someday I'll actually post something USEFUL."
- gremlin@iol.ie - patrick j. kenny the oneth -
- aka the bushrat - ennis, co. clare, ireland -
- vw transporters - tazmania - subaqua - cows -
- centaurs - dale e#3 - and other cool stuff -
"... but until then ..."