Galway Hooker

We send you on an alternative tour of the City of the Tribes — exploring some gems hidden in plain sight. Note: Not a tour of a red light district. Sorry to disappoint.

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What you might see

☘Shortest 'Walking Tour of Ireland'…in a pubthe whole country covered in a few paces
☘An urban safari around yuppievillepeople-watching in the city's smartest quarter
☘Stevie Wonder's favourite tech shopa small local store with an unlikely fan
☘The town of 1,000 Beardsa west-coast village with serious facial-hair form
☘Muckanaghederdauhaliaone of Ireland's longest and least sayable placenames
☘Galway Hookerthe traditional red-sailed fishing boat, and the beer named for it
☘A trad session on a double-decker buslive music while you're still moving
☘Galway's Fawlty Towersa hotel whose service is a local legend
☘The Spanish Arch and its swimmersyear-round divers off the city's old sea wall
☘A bilingual ghost estatehalf-finished houses with signage in two languages