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A couple Irish musicians I met in a Dingle pub with no name (if I remember correctly). I'd never have known of it, but an older guy (60-70ish?) named Dan that I was chatting with in the rain outside the crowded "Dingle Pub" (a nice but touristy place with traditional music) said he'd take me up to a pub with music if I'd share my umbrella, so of course I did, and these guys were the best musicians I saw in Ireland :-). Thanks Dan!

The musicians (whose names I never got I don't think) were really good and were improvising on various Irish themes. At least one of the tunes they played was written by the accordian player (and it was a great tune, cool chords as played by the guitar player; it was almost like jazz). They look like they may be brothers now that I look at the picture but that didn't occur to me at the time. The guitar player was especially nice and we talked about gigs, guitars and music and such. He was using an Octaver on his guitar to sort of play bass and guitar simultaneously. He had a great right hand; an excellent rhythm player. He also said he played bodhran, which might explain why he was such a great rhythm player, the technique for bodhran (as shown to me by an artisan/musician I bought my bodhran from later in the trip) is somewhat similar to strumming a guitar. He told me that they needed a percussionist so I clapped along as best I could (in my attempt at the the style of a bodhran player) and it seemed he thought I was doing OK (for an American no doubt LOL) since he was smiling and nodding at me while we played.

The guitar player also helped me out when I had left the pub to go to the after hours disco and forgot my Guinness Storehouse souvenir umbrella in the pub. I went back for it and the pub had closed, but fortunately for me the guitar player was still outside in his car and saw me and jumped out of his car and got me back into the pub to get my umbrella saying he'd noticed I'd left it when I walked out. I thanked him profusely for helping me out and he simply said "Us musicians have to stick together." Slainte!

For my Really? Seriously?!? Are you kidding me?!?!? Group.

With "soap and water", is that right? Umm . . . what else would I wash my hands with? Snot and dirt?!?!? Come on!

This poster is on the large mirror across and above the sinks in the Ladies Room.

While I do know and appreciate that clean hands are a good thing, you would think we work in a hospital or something - I work in a law firm . . .

Oh wait . . . there may be more germs and scum there than in a hospital!