Lost in Galway

Because I woke up feeling poorly, I decided to skip the boat trip to the Aran Isles and rest up. Keeley and I thought we'd check out the shops so headed down town about 10am. It was very quiet and we soon discovered why. Nothing opens until midday on a Sunday so since it was raining and miserable, we decided to catch a movie. Problem number 2- the movies don't open till 12.30pm either! I didn't want to walk back to our lodging all the way we had come and said to Keeley we'd take the short cut. I don't know what happened but we got hopelessly, unbelievably lost! I am blaming the fact that very few of the streets have signs so when I asked anyone where College Street was, they either didn't know, didn't care or gave us a bum steer. Not encouraging for our trip round Europe. We walked for 3 and a half hours before we reached home! And we did do at least one huge circle because we went to the same cemetery twice! We just about peed ourselves laughing at that stage! We had walked miles away from anywhere interesting and at one stage came across a sign that said WELLPARK ROAD. When we did get back to our room, I googled it on googlemaps to try to work out where I had gone wrong, and there is a whole suburb where almost every street is called Wellpark Road! I kid you not! Check it out for yourself! Put in Wellpark Road, Galway. If that's not typically Irish, I don't know what is. Naming all the streets the same name haha! The pictures show the only interesting things we saw. My confidence at not being lost anywhere in the world is a tad shaken, that's for sure...