Tips For the ‘Independent’ Traveller-In Galway
Travelling alone need not be such a daunting experience. Lets examine my solo experiment in Galway:
1. Always time your visit properly.
It is really exciting when you arrive in a city, and everything/everyone is asleep. Hence, you decide to retire to your suite. Thanks to your self-imposed ‘shoe-string’ budget, going to the pub or club are out of the option. Things could end up looking like this:
2. Choose a room with a TV
Never knew that stupid black box could be such a life saver. Never mind that, we can always chat with our new found room mates! Which brings me to my next point.
3. Pray for proper roommates
Things could be bleak when they are all out getting drunk, perhaps worse when they return. Therefore, if they return with a discoloured shirt, or talking to themselves, please pretend to be asleep. Beware: The pretense may last the whole night, if they happen to snore as well. With no ‘real’ sleep at all, you decide to wake early.
4. Waking up on time, pays dividends.
Somehow, everything looks great in the morning, could be the sunlight, or rather your lack of sleep. A photo frenzy begins. Now feeling optimistic, you embark on a tour.
5. Choose a seat with a clean window! Fancy DSLR/DLSR/DRSLs will not work with additional ‘fog filters’. Photo frenzy stalls! You decide to change seats immediately, giving your high tech equipment space to breathe. Things are finally beginning to work out, and another photo frenzy ensues.
Shots look dark, is it my camera?
6. Back to point 1. Before you know it, it gets dark again! You have barely digested lunch :s
Joel
