We joined up with some like minded adventurers and went out for the evening on a musical pub crawl. Usually pub crawls are to hit as many pubs in the Temple Barbdistrict of Dublin and see how many pints you can down while listening to Irish music.
We elected to go with a musical group which consisted of one fiddle player, Andy, who plays tunes and a guitar player, Paul, who plays songs. We followed them to three different pubs while they taught us about Irish music, Irish instruments, and Irish songs and tunes.
We had a great evening.
Do you know what the three main Irish instruments are?
The fiddle, the bodhrán, and Irish pipes (sort of similar to Scottish bag pipes but way harder to play!) called Uilleann pipes (pronounced sort of like Aaleen) A bodhrán is a sort of drum like instrument.
We learned a valuable lesson in crossing busy streets. Do as the Dubliners do. Ignore the crossing signs when they are red. Cross when you feel like it. Whatever you do don’t push the button to let the signal know you are waiting. The go walking light has a little green man and the stop walk sign has a little red man. And that’s what they call them. So look left and look right before crossing, ignore the little red man, cross with everyone else and hope you don’t get run over.
Bee in my Bonnet 