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Ireland. PTR

Mushroom

Goon of the Year
A little while ago me and Tomatron decided to goto Ireland to ride their coasters!

12th August

After a late finish the previous night, and only getting about 2 hours sleep, I find myself at Stansted airport awaiting for my flight to Dublin. But first was breakfast at 4am!

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Well I polished that off =D
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And a nice brew
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After a little bit more of a wait to be allowed to check in, I got through security and straight to the gate. As it was the first flight of the day, the plane was here, and on time! Here is the beast that is taking me to Dublin.
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Not much later we were in the sky
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Thats Baldock down there
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Also passed over Bedford, but the batteries died as we were going over =[ But I thought this was nice
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Now in dublin! On time too. And bye-bye plane!
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I had to hang around in arrivals awaiting for Tom who was coming in from Manchester. Once he arrived, we went to get our hire car from Hertz. A nice red Fiat bravo. Then we were onto our first destination!

it was onto Bettystown, home of funtasia. but we found the road signs a bit american
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We found Funtasia, and Tom did some awesome parking
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Welcome to funtasia!
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It has various arcade machines, but you can pay for them upfront with a card. And there were several rides indoors as well.
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We found out that the roof section which had their coaster was not open till 1pm! Which was not for another couple of hours. Bad times =[ We decided to get some brunch from the local shop and sit on the beach.
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There was this statue too
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It finally got to 1pm, the top section was open! There was some strange rides.
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And a bounce tower
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But we came for this scary thing!
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Decided no to sit at the front
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Mid ride
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Now we head back to the UK, specifically Northern Ireland, and some 'normal' signs
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Saw this just about everywhere!
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After a couple of hours of driving we get to Port Rush, and NI's only park!
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As we enter we are greeted by this... The Experience!
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There was a better sign of Barrys inside!
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Straight through, find out the prices and we hit the first coaster of the park, Pinfari looper!
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Tom is bracing for pain!
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Wasn't too bad of a ride, normal pain, and fairly slow! Now for the second wacky worm. But this one is a Big Apple!
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But it also comes with a frog!
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it is quite a big apple!
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Tom decided to do the Freak Out
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Now for another photo of Big Dipper
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Thats a crazy Freak Out!
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There was also a Ghost Train
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Scary!
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The rules!
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Tom was pleasantly shocked
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In Port Rush they had a sun dial
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Another nice Beach!
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Since we were nearby, we thought why not!
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There we go! Giants Causeway!
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Just very Rocky!
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But amazing!
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Time to leave, and a lot of flags on the houses!
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There is no actual sign for the border, but it is around here!
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100km back to Dublin!
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And we crossed a awesome bridge!
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After getting lost in Dublin trying to find our Travelodge, this is our huge room!
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Had a bit of a balcony
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As we were both tired after all the driving, we just crashed out and got some sleep before longer drives the next day!

Day 2 coming soon...
 
I didn't read the report, I'm sure it was excellent as always.

I just had a rampant desire to post these two images to see if anyone can find what was maybe wrong?

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I'm happy Tom got over there, and I'm sure you had a great time - but before ANYONE ever sees me (including my wife and kids), I sort my hair out so that at least for the first hour of the day I don't look like Wurzel Gummage.

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Erm, yeah! :)
 
^lol!

Nice report Mushy. God you two are hardcore aren't ya? All that way for Big Apple's and Pinfari's?

Can't wait to see your day 2 pics now!
 
Mushroom said:
Now we head back to the UK, specifically Northern Ireland, and some 'normal' signs.

Haha nice to see you got the geography right Mark. I personally don't count it part of Ireland too unlike some of our terrorist organisations. Also risky move taking an Irish registered car up to some of those areas :lol: .

Great report so far Mark. I can't believe how much new stuff they have got in Funtasia. A few years ago there was only really the Wacky Worm and an arcade cente. They really have improved the selection of rides and I will be taking a trip there soon now. Hope they get a biggish coaster soon.
 
I have to say that this doesn't inspire me to visit Ireland just yet. I'll keep watching though.
 
Ian said:
I have to say that this doesn't inspire me to visit Ireland just yet. I'll keep watching though.

:lol: , I wouldn't blame you. I haven't a clue why tourists come here apart from getting the credits. The north and south of Ireland are beautiful but there is feck all around Dublin. I think people only come here for Guinness and friendly people.
 
13th August

We had some epic driving between Dublin and Galway, our next park
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LOL
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Finally got to Galway, and could see this in the distance!
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Its from M&D's!
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Welcome to Perks!
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First up was a Zamperla wild mouse!
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Tom is not looking forward to it
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Here we gooooo!
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Ugh, Standard sign!
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turn me round!
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Wee!
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Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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Hmmm, what is this?
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Can you tell yet?
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Any idea?
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If you guessed it was 1 of these wacky work/big apples
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Its actually a speedy Gonzales!
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This pace was sooo ghetto!
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Hmm what does this do...
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holy Crap! it spins and jumps!
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time for the long drive to Waterford!
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We stopped in Limerick for a bit and saw the stadium that Ireland played last night
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If you look carefully you can see people cleaning up.
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But it is mainly a Rugger stadium
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Back on the road and we went past the castle!
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I think this would do some damage if it was on the road!
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Concealed eh?
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Random town pics en-route
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Not far to go, and we enter some back routes for some fun =D Kinda reminds you of Alton =D But for miles!
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We made it to Tramore!
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Oh god!
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Noooo
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It spins!
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Another spinning mouse hitting the spin...
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Frisbee!
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Ahhhh, Classic!
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Another Big Wheel!
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Ok, its another one of these, but it is slightly different!
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Its a mine themed one!
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it did have wider seats =D
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Standard traveling Log Flume!
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Then there is this ol' beast
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Look at that goodness =D
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It gets my thumbs up before even starting!
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Loooooooooooooop
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Up it goes!
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weee
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Turn
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As it was sooo good, we went for a second go!
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Drooooop
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Enter the loop
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Down the drop
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Whole Ride
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After that we headed back to Dublin for a quick rest up
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But since we were in Ireland, we had to drink =D
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14th August

Last day was just traveling home. We killed a few bugs en-route
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We took the car back to the airport, and waited for the bus back to the airport
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Random Ryanair plane taking off
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Now back to the airport, this is the new T2
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Before we went we got a drink from the bar at like 10am!
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Caught our respective flights back, and headed home for a nice long rest =D All in all it was good trip =]

Oh, 1 last thing, we took these photos in Tramore
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Not forgetting =]
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You would of drove past my house on the drive from Dublin to Galway!

Lol great to see all the coasters and parks Ireland has to offer :roll: ... Barry's looks like it has some decent fair rides so might be worth a quick visit if I'm ever up near Belfast.
 
That last little park looks kinda fun, mainly becuase of the Schwartzy. I really want to ride one of those one day.

Were both them Mouse coasters Zamperla? They're 'slightly' different to the Reverchon/Fabbri models aren't they?

I prefer PTR's to little parks like this, they're more intreaging for some reason. Looks like you had alot of fun anyway!
 
Nice last day of the trip guys, the Schwarzkopf was certainly worth the trip alone. Funny to still see the Thunder Loop Express signs and Italian safety signs all over the coaster even though its now called Shockwave.

Hope you both enjoyed Ireland and the guinness.
 
^^^I was tired! :p

I think that ride travels with the Funderland fair, so when that's around Belfast or Dublin you could try riding it then if you just want a city break. Would go back for Dublin alone next time.
 
Yeah it does the main Funderland event in Dublin over the Christmas/New Year period for a few weeks and throughout the rest of the year when its not at Tramore it does the other events at Cork and Belfast.

I just hope one year they come up with a wristband idea as its hard to whore it when its €3 a go. Last year it was €4.
 
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