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Bray Head is a great place to go after hitchhiking from Dublin out to Greystones! Do make sure you go with a caring, strong man, preferrably 2 male friends as I did!

The lads thought it would be a great idea to jog from Greystones all around the top of Bray Head and so, we did! Me in a pair of high heels (new ones at that) and all! This was around 10.30pm one summer’s evening and, admittedly, some years ago! It was exciting, starry, breathtaking, exhausting, bloody dangerous and not for the feint of heart! This is one of those mad things one does but, I would have to say, “Do not try this at home!”.

We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves, laughing all the way and had a well earned bag of chips and a can of coke each at the end of our romp before hitchhiking back to Dublin.

During the day the views are glorious and it is grand to climb to the top after having strolled leisurely along the promenade, visited a psychic, eaten ice cream and just enjoyed the colour and throng of people having fun on a sunny day.

The Bella Italia Restaurant in St. Andrews, Fife
was a disaster! I’m sorry! I usually see the good
in people and look for the best in most things!
There is little good to say about this eating
place!

Myself and a friend arrived at about 4.50pm and
our food was not on the table until almost 6pm!
I would have made an enquiry about how long it
was taking but, we were deep in conversation, not
starving and not too bothered at that point!

Set in the magnificent, historical town of St. Andrews
in The Kingdom of Fife {how can St Andrews (town of)
not be found on the Qype places in U.K.?}
, Bella Italia, is obviously
one of a chain of restaurants all over the world!

As we sat the place became quite crowded! They may
have been experiencing staffing problems as there
was only the manager and one waitress attending!

The surroundings were attractive but as we chatted, sat
and sat and sat and sat we felt increasingly
cold! Perhaps they need to do something about
the heating!! I wish!

When our beef burgers (£9.95) plus (£1) for emmental
cheese on top did arrive it was obvious that the
french fries were not just crispy but badly burnt!
Told the waitress we really didn’t like our chips
so well done and she was overly flustered/embarassed!
I felt for her as I had not been unpleasant, crass or
at all impolite! She had gone off to order 2 more
portions for us when my friend attempted to take a
bite out of her hamberger but she nearly left
her teeth behind! Enough! So we got up and I went over
to the bar! I explained that we were not happy with
our meal and why! The manager was extremely nervous
and overly apologetic! When he offered to send me
2 vouchers for a free meal for 2 I didn’t have the
heart to tell him I would not be returning again!

It was awful and I felt so bad as I had taken my
friend on such a long journey to visit the town!
I’m just glad I hadn’t taken her all that way to
eat at Bella Italia!

Harrington’s Restaurant is a real gem of a place!
It is situated on the Main Street of the, not so very attractive,
Harthill!

A small eatery, the decor is very attractive
and the good use of mirrors makes one feel it
is larger! The tables (around 10 I think) are
placed at a very comfortable distance from each
other, allowing for privacy and intimacy whilst
dining! It is run by a man and there are only
waiters serving it appears.

We went for “high tea” arriving at 5pm. The
menu was excellent with plenty of choice! All
four of us opted for the steak pie and we were
truly in for a treat!

Helpings were plentiful without being O.T.T.
The food and the plates were piping hot! The
meat was beautifully tender; the flavour of the
the beef and gravy was gorgeous and topped with
oodles of delicious, buttery puff pastry. This
excellent pie was served with carrots, garden peas,
boiled and roast potatoes (all very tasty and
expertly cooked).

The staff were very professional and asked if
we would care for some tea, coffee, scones and
cakes after our meal. We did so and thoroughly
enjoyed home baked current scones with butter
and our choice of cakes from a large tray brought
to our table!

The ladies’ was very hygenic and feminine to
fault!

We chose to drink iced water with our meal.
For all of this it cost a total of £38 only!

Harrington’s deserves to go big but, perhaps,
the owner prefers to keep it small and homely
and it would be spoiled otherwise! Tourists in
Glasgow or Edinburgh would love this restaurant,
I’m sure as would local people!

Apologies that I could not find
the location on the Qype Map but the telephone
number is provided if you’re interested! It’s
very easy to get to by car and is off the M8 motorway
between Glasgow and Edinburgh. Just take the
Harthill cut off (c. 20mins drive from city
centres).

A huge “thumbs up” to Harrington’s Restaurant!

The Alamo in Templebar has a great atmosphere with friendly, helpful, humerous staff and a rustic, Mexican feel to the whole place.

Their chilli goes over with much gratification and it is a lovely place to sit and “ponder the meaning of life” over a couple of bottles of wine with a good friend.

This Alamo is a wee, reasonably priced haven as opposed to all guns blazing!

Easons is a fabulous book store in Dublin! It has been around for at least 40 years and just keeps getting better and better!

It certainly supports Ireland’s notiriety of being “The Land of Saints and Scholars”!

Here one can find an enormous array of reading material, all sold with love and apprecation!

Easons is a must visit for book lovers who are visiting Dublin.

Khublai Khan is great fun!

My son chose this place for his birthday
dinner! Being on holiday from work he had
partied hard with his mates before deciding
to grace us with his company for his family
night out!

The four of us had a variety of starters
which are brought to your table! The former
and I chose crocodile (think it was eyes!).

When we went through and chose our wild beasts
such as kangaroo, zebra, ostrich and wild boar
my son did not follow the recipes on the walled
slates! These advise the amounts of herbs, spices
and oil you should add to your selection of
meats, noodles and veg. Sticking to the wild
boar, ostrich and following the recipe I was
delighted with my meal. My son went overboard
with his adventurousness, given his state of
hang over! Well! He turned not so much a whiter
shade of pale as the healthiest pea green soup
imaginable! The poor fellow felt so ill and so
guilty because he had asked to go here and, of
course, it was my treat! By this time my partner
had had several beers and was ready for a “whale”
(get it?lol!) of a time!!

Sense prevailed (me being sensible?) and the four
of us drove home ASAP! Just in time I would say!

I will go again one night but I don’t think my
heir will ever darken the doors of Khublai Khan
again!

A classy restaurant where the food looks colourful and appetising. The place was packed and we were too late to eat! The waitress offered us soup and bread if we wished or said that if we just wanted a few drinks we could go to the bar upstairs, which we didn’t know existed!

And what a lovely intimate, modern in a rustic sort of way bar it was! The music was beautifully soft so that we did not have to shout our conversations over it! 2 pints of guiness and 2 stella artois for the men in our company came our way! We chased these with a few single malt whiskeys that warmed our throats and our senses of humour!!

A great place to go!

This is a lovely, literally, wee pub that is just beside Stepps Train Station.

The staff are chatty and good fun!

It is a friendly place to enjoy a few pints with smiles, jokes and conversation at the ready if you’re in the mood for interacting.

If it’s your thing there’s a pool table that many try their hand at.

There’s a nice little beer garden outside which is particularly good if you’re a dreaded smoker like me and friends who were with me.

There is a camp site nearby and so people come for far and wide, which is always a bonus!

A lovely little place on a rainy day or sunny!

The Unbiquitous Chip has a great atmosphere and the food is good!

Many different kinds of interesting people go here and you’re likely to meet the odd thespian! Well not all “odd” but all of us, particularly myself, can be odd at times! Healthy eccentricity makes the world go round!

Set in Ashton Lane in the West End of Glasgow there’s never a dull moment!

A great place to go!