The end-of-the-pier vibes are still pleasantly intact, but blended with microbreweries and stylish restaurants and coffee shops, a place for the yoga bods and the farmer's tan (that would be me).īack at the Ardilaun the kids availed of the hotel's excellent swimming pool and later the small but perfectly formed garden to the rear, complete with fairy houses: just another classy touch in a hotel which obviously prizes its guests. Recommended.Ī subsequent walk along Salthill promenade, glimmering in the afternoon sunlight, highlighted how the area has changed since I lived here. From Motoro Stingrays to piranhas, from smirking lesser spotted dogfish to scary-looking pike, the Atlantaquaria has a fantastic mix of native and foreign marine life within its large tanks, each with easy-to-understand explainers which place what you're seeing in the context of the ever-pressing need to save and preserve our oceans. It turns out to be a brilliant way to spend an hour indoors: a finely planned walkabout that thrills and educates about the sealife we all too often take for granted. We landed on a Friday afternoon to soaring temperatures and a trip to the Atlantaquaria, Ireland's largest native species aquarium plonked right on the Salthill seafront at the city end. If ever a weekend away could make up for lost time, maybe this was it. We're back, to be precise, my wife and our three children lucking out with a suite at the Ardliaun Hotel in the upwardly mobile Taylor's Hill part of town, and with a packed itinerary across three days.
But now, on a glorious weekend in August, I'm back. By second year, I'd decamped back to Cork to continue my undergraduate career and since then, I've probably spent more time in Clarinbridge, Craughwell, and Connemara than the city itself.
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